Being an extremely energy intensive sector, in future the glassmaking industry will be faced with increasing pressure to lower its polluting and greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, and to decrease its specific energy consumption. To achieve this goal, many innovative technological solutions are being developed, such as low-NOx burners, staged combustion systems, new waste gases treatment systems capable of unprecedented efficiency and compactness, or new systems for the advanced recovery of flue gases residual energy. The first step in reaching a better energy efficiency and a lower production of NOx, SOx and Co2, however, is to simply exploit at its fullest potential the equipment already installed in each furnace, running it in the most optimised way. To support glass producers, SSV has developed an experimental approach for the fine tuning to furnace burners, leading to sizeable emissions reductions and to slightly improved specific energy consumption performance.
