uniglassAC GmbH

uniglassAC

offers services in the consultation of glass producers and suppliers to this branch. Services extend to the education of factory staff, the analysis of primary production processes, and glass development.

Courses for factory staff have been performed for glass producers and suppliers alike. They provide recent knowledge in glass science and technology and always build the bridge to the needs of production staff.

Industrial Courses

• energy utilization,
• raw materials,
• batch melting,
• use of thermochemical methods in glass technology,
• heat transfer,
• relaxation kinetics and melt strength,
• melt-gas interaction, emissions, flue gas cleaning,
• glass-water interaction, hydrolytic stability, bio fluid exposure, dish washing,
• design of glass composition with respect to: energy, liquidus temperature, hydrolytic stability, elastic constants.

Consultation projects comprised the topics of energy utilization optimization from planning to full-scale test campaigns with a special focus on use of raw materials, furnace performance, and high-T reactions. Another focus is the optimization of glass composition, e.g., for liquidus temperature, hydrolytic stability, elastic properties, or the use as solder glass ceramic systems.

Reference Projects

• furnace performance analysis, consortium with container glass sites in Australia, Austria, Germany, Japan, Mexiko, Spain, Thailand, U.S.A.; 26 cases, observation period 2 years each;
• 12 cases: container, tableware, crystal, continuous fibre, wool, soluble glass; comprising 7 campaigns with full-scale batch changes;
• support to the design of a batch pre-heater: heat transfer, bulk solid flow;
• product development and calculations of intrinsic heat demand of melting upon use of different raw materials for different
  • raw materials suppliers,
  • furnace construction companies,
  • producers of mineral insulation fibres and continuous fibres;
• evaluation of in vitro tests for health risk assessment of insulation fibres;
• optimization of clinker formation and hydration in cement industry.

Individual Highlights

Glass producers host a treasure of data of furnace operation which may be analyzed and evaluated retrospectively. Such an evaluation is the basis for the evaluation of furnace performance, and its optimization.