Advanced Melter Operation And Training Tool

Glass Service Inc (GS) has been developing its own computer furnace design package for the last decade. This packaged is used by GS and other glass companies to analyse and diagnose furnace operation. It contains a user-friendly graphical front end, a simplified version of a furnace operation station that allows modifying furnace settings (bach charging rate and properties, set-up of bubblers, coolers, fuel profile, etc.). Behind this user interface, coupled glass and combustion models are run. The output of these calculations displays temperatures in positions where thermocouples and pyrometers are located in reality, exhaust gas properties, glass flow patterns, locations of spring zone, quality indices, etc.