Pollution abating, energy conserving glass manufacturing process.

摘要

Some free water containing glass batch agglomerate formulations when attempted to be dried and heated in a vertical bed (3) prior to being discharged to a glass meter (1) for vitrification convert into large aggregates which cannot be suitably supplied to the melter. The present invention solves this process disabling aggregate formation by treating such agglomerates in a preconditioning chamber(s) (11, 21, 31, 41) prior to supplying them into a vertical bed (3) so as to preclude serious aggregate formation in either the preconditioner or the vertical bed. Such treatment is employed in manufacturing glass with a fossil fuel fired melter or an electrically operated melter.