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US 2026/0274733 A1Published application
Methods of recycling cullet and fibreglass
AssigneeSibelco Nederland N.V.
InventorsLesley BEYERS, Johannes VAN LIMPT
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of recycling cullet. The present invention also relates to methods of recycling fibreglass. In particular, the present invention utilises submerged combustion melting to recycle cullet and/or fibreglass.
Claims25
A method of forming glass, the method comprising:
- introducing cullet, or fibreglass, or cullet and fibreglass, into a glass melt contained within a submerged combustion melter, the submerged combustion melter comprising one or more submerged burners,
- discharging combustion products from the one or more submerged burners directly into the glass melt, the one or more submerged burners combusting a combustible gas mixture that comprises fuel and oxygen, and,
- discharging glass from the submerged combustion melter.
Use of a submerged combustion melter to partially or fully remove S, or PbO, or S and PbO, from cullet, or fibreglass, or cullet and fibreglass, and form discharged glass.
A glass composition comprising (or consisting of):
- Component
- From/weight %
- To/weight %
- Fe2O3
- 0.2
- 0.8
- Al2O3
- 0.5
- 3.0
- TiO2
- 0
- 0.2
- K2O
- 0.2
- 1.0
- CaO
- 10.0
- 15.0
- MgO
- 1.0
- 4.0
- Na2O
- 10.0
- 15.0
- SiO2
- 70.0
- 75.0
- S
- 0
- 1
- Impurities
- Balance
- Balance
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A glass composition comprising (or consisting of):
- Component
- From/weight %
- To/weight %
- Fe2O3
- 0.2
- 1.5
- Al2O3
- 10.0
- 17.0
- TiO2
- 0
- 0.5
- K2O
- 0.2
- 1.0
- CaO
- 14.0
- 25.0
- MgO
- 1.0
- 8.0
- Na2O
- 0
- 3.0
- SiO2
- 55.0
- 65.0
- S
- 0
- 0.1
- Impurities
- Balance
- Balance
30 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.