Method for repairing a tank in a glass melting furnace

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for repairing, in a hot state, a region of a tank in a glass furnace, referred to as the “region to be repaired”, by means of a repair product (P), the method involving the following steps, at a temperature greater than 300° C.: a) defining a receiving space in the region to be repaired, referred to as the “region to be filled”, the region to be filled (10) having a bottom (12; 12′); b) coating the bottom, the coating time, from the start of the introduction of the repair product into the region to be filled to the time at which the bottom is completely covered with the repair product, lasting less than 14 minutes; c) filling the region to be filled with the repair product, the rate of increase (V) in the repair product in the region to be filled being, at any time during the filling step, greater than or equal to 3 mm/min.

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