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Regenerative glass melting furnace with minimum NO.sub.x formation and method of operating it

US5755846A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Beteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Manfred Wagner · Triftern, DE
Klaus Sorg · Lohr am Main, DE
Helmut Pieper · Lohr am Main, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 10, 1994
Grant date	May 26, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 10, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P40/50
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of operating a regenerative glass melting furnace with end-firing or cross-firing utilizes burners to provide sub-stoichiometric combustion and super-stoichiometric combustion along the sidewalls or transverse walls of the furnace and equipment associated with the method. Fuel supply is controlled so that overall combustion is stoichiometric.

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