Oxygen and natural gas preheating for oxy-float glass

Air Liquide and AGC Glass Europe have collaborated to develop a new technology based on oxy-combustion, combining a heat recovery equipment that provides a furnace with preheated oxygen and preheated natural gas by recovering energy from the flue gases, with a new generation of staged oxygen burner named Alglass Sun. Youssef Joumani * , Bertrand Leroux ** , Antonella Contino *** , Olivier Douxchamps **** and Johan Behen ***** report for Glass International.