Method and apparatus for drying glass batch pellets
US4328016A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 15, 1980 |
| Grant date | May 4, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 15, 2000 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P40/50
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A process for preheating glass batch pellets is disclosed, the pellets being preheated by tumbling them into a heated gas stream and subsequently by contact of the pellets, in the form of a moving bed, with hot gases from the furnace in which the preheated pellets are melted to form molten glass from which fibers are formed.
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