Glass Furnace Efficiency Improvements

圣戈班设计、制造和销售的解决方案适用于我们的生活场所和日常生活：建筑、交通、基础设施和许多工业应用。它们提供舒适、性能和安全，同时应对可持续建筑、资源效率和气候变化的挑战。圣戈班在全球拥有约17万名员工和1000家制造工厂。该集团致力于到2050年实现碳中和。圣戈班玻璃是欧洲领先的建筑行业平板玻璃制造商，也是世界第二大生产商。圣戈班玻璃提供全系列节能镀膜玻璃和隔热玻璃，其在英国的主要制造工厂位于北约克郡的埃格伯勒（SGGUK）。该项目将在SGGUK的Eggborough工厂提供一个全新的平板玻璃生产炉。它将提高工厂的效率，同时显著降低能源消耗、排放和持续的维护成本。现有的熔炉构成了生产线的核心部分，现在已经超过21年了。它效率低下，维护成本高，资源密集，并带来持续的健康和安全挑战。圣戈班玻璃利用最新的技术进步，包括公司开发的专利工艺，设计了全新的熔炉和生产线组件更换。活动的主要重点领域将是熔炉，因为它是平板玻璃生产过程中最耗能的部分，需要并且可以实现最大的效益。生产线的其余部分、批处理设备、浮子、退火炉、切割和堆叠将进行升级，以提高效率并实现更高的生产率。特别值得注意的是，通过多次重新加热熔融玻璃来减少热损失的措施，因为它必须通过熔炉的各个部分进行循环。该项目理想情况下将于2021年3月开始，但需完成尽职调查，并将于2021年7月完成。来自工业能源转型基金总计140万英镑的支持将使3550万英镑的投资以最佳规模进行。该项目将带来以下好处：§在同等产量的基础上，每年至少减少75,243兆瓦时的天然气消耗；·在整个生命周期内减少276,836吨温室气体排放（TCO2e）；§在整个生命周期内减少了19,604,762英镑的能源费用。§每天增加60吨平板玻璃的潜在生产能力。

Saint Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes solutions that are found in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.Saint Gobain has around 170,000 employees and 1,000 manufacturing facilities across the world. The group is committed to carbon neutrality by 2050\. Saint Gobain Glass is Europe's leading manufacturer of flat glass for the construction industry, and is the second largest producer in the world. Saint Gobain Glass offers a complete range of energy efficient coated glass and insulated glazing, and its primary manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom is in Eggborough, North Yorkshire (SGGUK).This project will deliver a brand-new flat glass production furnace at SGGUK's Eggborough plant. It will improve the plant's efficiency whilst dramatically reducing energy consumption, emissions and on-going maintenance costs. The existing furnace which forms the central component of the production line is now over 21 years old. It is inefficient, costly to maintain, resource intensive and presents on-going health and safety challenges. Saint Gobain Glass has designed an entirely new furnace and production line component replacements utilising the very latest technological advances, including company-developed processes covered by patents.The main area of focus of activity will be the furnace, as it is the most energy intensive part of the flat glass production process, where maximum benefits need to and can be achieved. The remainder of the production line, batch plant, float, annealing lehr, cutting and stacking will be upgraded to both be more efficient and to enable the higher production rates. Of particular note are the measures to minimise the heat loss through re-heating molten glass multiple times as it circulates, necessarily, through the sections of the furnace.The project will ideally commence in March 2021, subject to the completion of due diligence, and will be completed by July 2021\. Support totalling £1.4 million from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund will enable the £35.5 million investment to proceed at the optimal scale. The project will deliver the following benefits:§Annual minimum reduction in gas consumption of 75,243 MWh, based on like for like output;§Lifetime reduction of 276,836 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (TCO2e); and,§Lifetime reduction in energy bills of £19,604,762§Increase in daily production capacity potential by 60 tonnes of flat glass.