A glass melting furnace is designed to melt raw materials into glass. Depending on the intended use, there are various designs of glass melting furnaces...

Dover reprint 1950. Cable, M., 1998, The operation of wood-fired glass-melting furnaces. In: P. McCray and D. Kingery (eds.), The *Prehistory and History...

applicable to large-scale glass production and experimental glass melting in the laboratory: The batch is fed into the furnace at a slow, controlled rate...

Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications Glass melting furnace Muffle furnace or retort furnace Solar furnace Vacuum furnace Metallurgical...

glass batch preparation and mixing, the raw materials are transported to the furnace. Soda–lime glass for mass production is melted in glass-melting furnaces...

America's glass bottle and glass jar industry was born in the early 1600s, when settlers in Jamestown built the first glass-melting furnace. The invention...

A cupola or cupola furnace is a melting device used in foundries that can be used to melt cast iron, Ni-resist iron and some bronzes. The cupola can be...

methods. Melting is performed in a furnace. Virgin material, external scrap, internal scrap, and alloying elements are used to charge the furnace. Virgin...

(NaCl), etc.) in a glass furnace at temperatures locally up to 1675 °C. The temperature is only limited by the quality of the furnace structure material...

dates from circa 1535; it contained an early melting furnace and a smaller annealing furnace. The melting furnace had two siege benches for the placement of...

lower the melting point). Ordinary A-glass ("A" for "alkali-lime") or soda lime glass, crushed and ready to be remelted, as so-called cullet glass, was the...

transmission in the infrared. Melting is effected at approximately 2200 °C (4000 °F) using either an electrically heated furnace (electrically fused) or a...

and melting boric oxide, silica sand, soda ash, and alumina. Since borosilicate glass melts at a higher temperature than ordinary silicate glass, some...

materials are used in furnaces, kilns, incinerators, and reactors. Refractories are also used to make crucibles and molds for casting glass and metals. The...

process on blast furnaces. It was later used in glass melting furnaces and steel making, to increase the efficiency of open hearth furnaces, and in high pressure...

fuel. For a glass-melting furnace, a regenerator sits on either side of the furnace, often forming an integral whole. For a blast furnace, the regenerators...

extremely high melting point (typically considered to be above, say, 1,800 °C) may be determined by heating the material in a black body furnace and measuring...

Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...

glass) are melted in tank furnaces for continuous glass production. The glassmaking process comprises a number of stages, beginning with the melting of...

was written by Carl Kröger in 1953. For modeling of the glass flow in a glass melting furnace the finite element method is applied commercially, based...

Additional rules specified ingredients used for making glass and the type of wood used as fuel for the furnaces. A law dated November 8, 1291 confined most of...

Tempered glass can be made from annealed glass via a thermal tempering process. The glass is placed onto a roller table, taking it through a furnace that...

African trade, the core of a decorated bead was produced from molten glass at furnace temperatures, a large-scale industrial process dominated by men. The...

lower the melting point of the silica to form glass. Analysis of Roman glass has shown that soda (sodium carbonate) was used exclusively in glass production...

pots were located inside the furnace, and contained molten glass created by melting the batch of ingredients. Tank furnaces, which were less common than...

metallic rod, they slowly cooled down in a side chamber of the glass melting furnace and, then, the core material was scraped out of the interior. Common...

classification temperatures. AES wool consists of amorphous glass fibers that are produced by melting a combination of calcium oxide (CaO−), magnesium oxide...

vitreous carbon crucible and transferred to a silica tube furnace in a sealed vessel. Melting is typically at 1150 °C for 24 hours. The molten gallium...

started experimenting with melting glass in a small furnace and creating blown glass art. Littleton promoted the use of small furnaces in individual artists...

axially symmetrical paraboloids. Usually, the objects are made of glass. The furnace makes use of the fact, which was known already to Newton, that the...