Lower-energy routes to commercial soda-lime-silica glass manufacture through changes in the raw materials balance

该项目是玻璃技术服务有限公司和谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学之间的合作，将进行可行性研究，以开发低能耗的路线来生产商用钠石灰硅玻璃。我们建议改变原材料的组成和平衡，包括部分替换玻璃熔窑中的批量成分，以降低熔化温度和熔化时间，从而降低英国玻璃制造业的能源消耗、成本和排放5-10%。这项研究的一个创新和关键方面将是将化学技术应用于工业废料（如稻壳、香蕉废料、海贝壳），以开发可以引入玻璃熔化过程的原料，以降低高温粘度或提供更低的能量输入。如果成功，该项目将进入第二阶段的应用研究计划，旨在开发可扩展的技术，并将其引入英国的18个玻璃制造基地。

This project is a collaboration between Glass Technology Services Ltd and Sheffield Hallam University that willundertake a feasibility study to develop lower-energy routes to produce commercial soda-lime-silica glass. Wepropose to make changes in raw materials composition and balance, including the partial replacement of batchingredients in a glass melting furnace to reduce melting temperatures and melting times, and consequentlyreduce energy consumption, costs and emissions by 5-10% across the UK glass manufacturing industry. Aninnovative and critical aspect of this research will be to apply chemistry techniques to waste products fromother industries (e.g. rice husk, banana waste, sea shells) to develop raw materials that can be introduced intoglass melting processes to either reduce the high temperature viscosity or provide lower energy input forfusion. If successful this project will lead on to a second stage programme of applied research targeted atdeveloping scalable technology that can be introduced into the UK's 18 glass manufacturing sites.