Glass melting furnaces are considered to be high energy consuming industrial fabrication facilities. Improvements of furnace designs to improve energy savings are a continuous demand of the glass manufacturing industry. Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are creating additional demands for further investigations to enable manufacturers to comply with greenhouse gas limitations. there are many approaches and inventions targeting improved energy efficiency. Most ideas are never implemented full scale since visible improvement is not achievable with the proposed solutions. An example of this could be a proposal that improves melting rate, but does not necessarily result in more energy efficient operations. This paper presents a new furnace design solution.
