Glass melting plant and method for the operation thereof
OwnerVolker MÜLLER, Jürgen GRÖSSLERinventors
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Abstract
A glass melting plant having a fully electrically heated melt tank and a conditioning channel connected to the melt tank. In order to enable the recovery of wet waste without impairing the glass quality, in addition, a wet waste supply channel is provided, which opens laterally into the conditioning channel, for the melting of wet waste and for supplying the melted wet waste to the glass melt conducted in the conditioning channel. A corresponding method is provided for operating a glass melting plant.
Claims10
A glass melting plant comprising:
- a fully electrically heated melt tank,
- a conditioning channel connected to the melt tank,
- a wet waste supply channel opening laterally into the conditioning channel and being configured to melt wet waste and to supply the melted wet waste to the glass melt conducted in the conditioning channel, and
- a supply device located at an end of the wet waste supply channel situated opposite the conditioning channel, the supply device storing the wet waste and supplying it to the wet waste supply channel.
A method for operating a glass melting plant having a fully electrically heated melt tank and a conditioning channel connected thereto, comprising
- melting wet waste in a wet waste supply channel,
- supplying the melted wet waste laterally, through the wet waste supply channel, to a glass melt conducted in the conditioning channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.