摘要 |
The process comprises introducing a raw material to be melted in a melting chamber of a furnace, burning fuel through burners so as to generate thermal energy for melting the raw material and to obtain molten glass and a hot stream of fumes having a temperature of 1000-1600[deg] C at an outlet of the melting chamber, introducing the hot stream of fumes from the melting chamber in a preheating installation of the furnace, and heating, in a first thermal exchanger of the preheating installation, a first oxidizing stream using an oxidizing agent having an oxygen content of 21 vol.%. The process comprises introducing a raw material to be melted in a melting chamber of a furnace, burning fuel through burners so as to generate thermal energy for melting the raw material and to obtain molten glass and a hot stream of fumes having a temperature of 1000-1600[deg] C at an outlet of the melting chamber, introducing the hot stream of fumes from the melting chamber in a preheating installation of the furnace, heating, in a first thermal exchanger of the preheating installation, a first oxidizing stream using an oxidizing agent having an oxygen content of 21 vol.% and containing air by heat exchange with the hot stream of fumes so as to generate cold stream of fumes and a heated stream of oxidant with a temperature of 600-900[deg] C, heating, in a second thermal exchanger of the preheating installation, a second oxidizing stream having an oxygen content of 80-100 vol.% by heat exchange with the heated stream of oxidant so as to generate preheated stream of rich oxidant with an temperature of 400-650[deg] C and a tempered stream of oxidant with an temperature of 350-650[deg] C, and providing the preheated stream and tempered stream of oxidant in the burners. The tempered stream of oxidant has an oxygen content of 40-90 vol.%. An independent claim is included for an installation for melting glass. |