Combined furnace
AssigneeArc France
InventorsHerve Charles, Jean-Marie Bonningues, Sebastien Donze, Francois Famchon, Xavier Ibled
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Abstract
Installation including an industrial glass furnace (1) including a tank (2) for molten glass (3), a combustion heating chamber (4) situated above the tank (2), and a duct for evacuation of flue gases in communication with said heating chamber (4), and a stone furnace including a firing zone (21) for stone to be fired, the flue gas evacuation duct including a flue gas outlet that is connected to the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired and supplying the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired with flue gases at high temperature.
Claims4
An installation including an industrial glass furnace (1) comprising a tank (2) for molten glass (3), a combustion heating chamber (4) situated above the tank (2), and a duct for evacuation of flue gases in communication with said heating chamber (4), and a stone furnace (11) comprising a firing zone (21) for stone to be fired, and a cooling zone (22) situated under the firing zone (21), wherein ambient air enters at a bottom portion of the stone furnace (11), passing upwardly through the cooling zone (22), the duct comprising a flue gas outlet that is connected to the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired and supplying the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired with flue gases at a temperature greater than 900° C.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.