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US 2025/0115508 A1Published application
Glass melting furnaces and vessels with improved electrical resistivity
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsBenjamin Zain Hanson, Jason Arthur Howles, Edward Lee Kimble, III
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Abstract
Glass melting furnaces include a melting vessel that includes a floor, a feeding mechanism configured to feed raw materials into the melting vessel, a heating mechanism configured to convert raw materials fed into the melting vessel into molten glass, and a layer comprising an electrical resistivity enhancing material that is configured to diffuse into at least one layer of the floor that comprises a refractory ceramic material.
Claims20
A glass melting vessel comprising:
- a heating mechanism;
- a floor comprising at least one layer comprising a refractory ceramic material;
- and a layer comprising an electrical resistivity enhancing material, the electrical resistivity enhancing material configured to diffuse into the at least one layer comprising the refractory ceramic material during operation of the glass melting vessel.
A method of operating a glass melting vessel, the glass melting vessel comprising:
- a floor comprising at least one layer comprising a refractory ceramic material;
- and
- a layer comprising an electrical resistivity enhancing material;
- the method comprising:
- feeding raw materials into the melting vessel;
- converting the raw materials fed into the melting vessel into molten glass;
- and
- diffusing the electrical resistivity enhancing material into the at least one layer comprising the refractory ceramic material during operation of the glass melting vessel.
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