Foreword vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Plenary 1
The United Nations International Year of Glass-2022 3
Manoj K. Choudhary, L. David Pye, and Alicia Duran
Re-Balancing the Issue-Driven Sustainability Dialogue That is Hurting Glass. How We Got Here and What We Do About It 11
Randolph L. Burns
Collaboration in Competitive Spaces 23
Aston Fuller
The Green Story of Cardinal FG 29
Milo Renberg
Refractories 31
Mullitisation: The Key to Regenerating Regenerators 33
Christopher Windle
Know What’s In Your Furnace: All Bonded AZS Refractory Brick Are Not The Same 51
J. Terry Fisk
How Efficient Non-Destructive Controls of Fused-Cast AZS will Support High Quality Glass Melting 61
Isabelle Cabodi, Zi Kang Low, Pierrick Vespa, Mélanie Allen-Larut, Michel Gaubil, and Frederic Pomar
Data, Chemistry, and Energy 75
Ultrafast Glass Engineering 77
S. K. Sundaram
Operating a Heat Exchanger on Guardian Glass Carleton, Michigan Float Glass Plant 87
Martin Schroeter
Energy/combustion 93
Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery in an Oxyfuel Melter 95
Adam Polcyn
Glass Melt Quality Optimization by Mathematical Modeling of Redox and Bubbles in the Glass Melt 109
Andries Habraken, Oscar Verheijen, Adriaan Lankhorst, Anne-Jans Faber, and Corinne Claireaux
Sensors/energy 117
Carbon Reduction Comparison of Electric or Hydrogen Power 119
H. P. H. Muijsenberg, Hans Mahrenholtz, Glenn Neff, Norie Neff, Stuart Hakes, Christoph Jatzwauk, and Andreas Birle
Preparing for Sustainable Glass Production – Technical and Economic Investigation of Next Generation Fuels for Glass Melters 139
Martin Adendorff, Robert L. Bell, Shrikar Chakravarti, Hisashi Kobayashi, and Minish Shah
In-Furnace Thermal Imaging Survey of a Float Furnace for Combustion Optimization 153
Neil G Simpson and Philippe Kerbois