The glass industry demands smaller glass melting furnaces with high pull rates and high production efficiencies. With the application of oxy-fuel burners, higher energy efficiencies can be achieved. However, the design of many oxy-fuel-fired tanks, which may not lead to optimal energy efficiency. Different flame lengths and different combustion atmospheres lead to miscellaneous glass flows and temperatures. Also, a different temperature distribution of the superstructure is required to reduce corrosion. Using a novel design for the combustion space and melting furnace and using new oxy-fuel burners can result in high energy efficiency and high pull rates while obtaining high production quality. In this paper a new design of a container glass furnace modeled by the TNO glass tank model is described. The results of the modeling study of this new furnace design are discussed and compared with more classical designs.
