US 2026/0018312 A1 · APPARATUS FOR CHARGING HEATING ELEMENT INTO VITRIFIED MELTING FURNACE

Abstract

An apparatus for charging a heating element for heating a glass melt, to restart a vitrified melting furnace, during emergency stop of the vitrified melting furnace for vitrifying radioactive waste is disclosed. The apparatus for charging a heating element into a vitrified melting furnace according to the present invention comprises a main frame, a universal joint positioned at one end of the main frame, at least one heating element binding portion rotating by being connected to the universal joint, and a gripper positioned at an end of the heating element binding portion, gripping the heating element.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An apparatus for charging a heating element into a vitrified melting furnace that vitrifies radioactive waste, the apparatus comprising:

a main frame;
a universal joint positioned at one end of the main frame;
at least one heating element binding portion rotating by being connected to the universal joint;
and
a gripper positioned at an end of the heating element binding portion, gripping the heating element.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/721,518Filed 20 Oct 2023

Priority

KR 10-2023-00028259 Jan 2023

Published

15 Jan 2026

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G21F 9/30
Treating solids: processing
G21F 9/305
In an inorganic matrix: glass or glass like matrix
C03B 3/026
Combined with preheating, premelting or pretreating the glass-making ingredients, pellets or cullet: by charging the ingredients into a flame,…
C03B 5/005
Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture: of glass-forming waste materials

Apparatus for charging heating element into vitrified melting furnace

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Apparatus for charging heating element into vitrified melting furnace

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Abstract

Claims8