Glassmaking furnace regenerator
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Centre De Recherches Et D'Etudes Europeen
InventorsAlain Zanoli, Yves Boussant-Roux, Olivier Citti
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Abstract
The invention relates to a glassmaking furnace regenerator including a stack of several rows of refractory members defining a plurality of channels, characterized in that the stack comprises, in the hot gas flow direction, a first zone at the hot gas inlet, for rapidly cooling the hot gases, a second zone, or central zone, for condensing and trapping chemical species liable to generate dust, and a third zone, at the cooled gas outlet, for evacuating condensates, the rows of stacked refractory members constituting said central zone including at least two adjacent rows whose channels have a projected surface area at least 20% less than those of the channels of the first and third zones.
Claims9
A glassmaking furnace regenerator including a stack of several rows of refractory members defining a plurality of channels, characterized in that the stack comprises, in the hot gas flow direction, a first zone at the hot gas inlet, for rapidly cooling the hot gases, a second zone, or central zone, for condensing and trapping chemical species liable to generate dust, and a third zone, at the cooled gas outlet, for evacuating condensates, the rows of stacked refractory members constituting said central zone including at least two adjacent rows whose channels have a projected surface area at least 20% less than those of the channels of the first and third zones.
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