Events world: Furnace Solutions
Global delegates attend Furnace Solutions conference and training More than 100 delegates from around the globe attended this year’s annual Furnace Solutions event, including Glass International’s Greg Morris.
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he combined conference and training day in the UK saw delegates attend from Japan, Turkey, USA, Germany and the UK where they heard a variety of papers about the use of furnaces in glassmaking. Delegates were from furnace suppliers and glass manufacturers and included technology suppliers such as Parkinson Spencer Refractories, Teco, Zippe, Fives Stein, CelSian, and FIC UK as well as glassworks such as Verallia, Stolzle Flaconnage, Drujba Glassworks, Beatson Glass, Allied Glass, Bormioli Luigi, Guardian Glass, Nippon Electric Glass and Ardagh Glass. More than 100 people attended the event, which was once again held at Lucideon, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Sisecam’s Corporate Energy and Environmental Manager, Tunc Goruney, won the Michael Garvey award for the best paper at the conference. His paper, titled Pushing the Envelope of Waste Heat Recovery in Oxy-fuel Tableware Furnaces, outlined a project at Sisecam’s 200 tonne per day furnace in Targovishte, Bulgaria. The project was co-funded by a €1.7 million grant from the European Commission LIFE programme and also included a technology partner, Air Liquide. His paper discussed waste heat recovery from an oxy-fuel furnace via the implementation of reactant preheating technology. The technology has already been validated by several applications to extend the benefits of oxy-fuel combustion in tableware and float furnaces. Mr Goruney reported up to 8% natural gas savings and in excess of a 90% NOx reduction compared to an end-fired regenerative air-fuel furnace. Michael Garvey was a former Guardian Glass engineer who tragically died in a climbing accident just days after the 2008
� Michael Garvey award winner Mr Tunc Goruney (left), with Melting Technical Committee Chairman, Nigel Longshaw.
Furnace Solutions event. There were 11 papers throughout the day-long conference, each of 30 minutes duration.
Glass Futures The conference had started with a joint-
presentation from Dr Richard Hulme of Guardian Glass and Dr Nick Kirk of Glass Technology Services (GTS). They spoke about the Glass Futures project in the UK, which is a not for profit Continued>>
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