Self-crucible wall submerged burner furnace
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Isover
InventorsAntoine Guillet, Frédéric Lopepe, Richard Di Caro
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Abstract
A furnace for melting vitrifiable material, in particular glass, employs a submerged burner, the furnace including a wall cooled by a cooling fluid, the face of the wall facing toward the interior of the furnace having, before vitrifiable material is melted in the furnace, an attachment texture for so-called self-crucible devitrified vitrifiable material.
Claims16
A submerged burner vitrifiable material melting furnace including a wall cooled by a cooling fluid, wherein a face of the wall facing toward the interior of the furnace comprises an attachment texture to attach a self-crucible devitrified vitrifiable material,
- wherein the wall includes a metal plate, the attachment texture comprising a plurality of separate projecting metal elements fixed to a face of said metal plate facing toward the interior of the furnace, each of said plurality of separate projecting metal elements fixed to the face of said metal plate projecting away from said face of the metal plate toward the interior of the furnace so that the attachment texture comprises solids and voids of at least 5 mm in a direction perpendicular to the wall, and wherein said plurality of separate projecting metal elements extend longitudinally along a surface of said wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.