A method for controlling a plant for melting a raw-material composition, suitable for obtaining mineral wool, cullet, textile glass yarns and/or flat glass or container glassware, which includes a melting chamber suitable for melting the composition, wherein the composition includes at least one wet mixture of mineral wool and/or biomass, and the method includes controlling at least one physical variable that has an impact on the output of the melting chamber, the controlling being carried out as a function of the moisture content of the composition and/or of the wet mixture, as measured before introduction of the composition and/or of the wet mixture into the melting chamber.

A method of making glass is disclosed in which a flue gas that comprises water vapor is exhausted from a submerged combustion melter that is operated to discharge combustion products into a glass melt that results from the combustion of a mixture of hydrogen gas and an oxidant gas. Heat may be recovered from the exhausted flue gas to heat batch feedstock material fed to the melter, or water vapor in the exhausted flue gas may be condensed and returned to the melter for cooling purposes, or both. A glass-melting system is also disclosed that includes a submerged combustion melter, a batch feedstock material preheater in fluid communication with the submerged combustion melter and configured to heat batch feedstock material, a condenser in fluid communication with the batch feedstock material preheater, and a cooling water reservoir in fluid communication with the condenser and the submerged combustion melter.

Vitrified products are manufactured using a melt produced from batch materials comprising 35 to 100 w % man-made mineral fibers produced in a submerged combustion melter.

The invention discloses a method for preparing lead smelting slag glass-ceramics based on the oxidation of silicon-rich silicon smelting slag and composition adjustment, and belongs to the technical field of resource utilization of smelting slag rich in monatomic silicon. The method comprises the steps: mixing the silicon slag rich in monatomic silicon with an oxidant, a fluxing agent and a clarifying agent according to a formula ratio, ball-milling and screening to obtain a tempering raw material with uniform size, and performing high-temperature oxidation melting on the tempering raw material to form an oxidation-state molten tempering material; and carrying out further mixed melting on the molten tempering material and hot lead slag, carrying out water quenching to obtain basic glass, and carrying out heat treatment system on the obtained basic glass to form the glass ceramics. According to the method, the smelting slag rich in monatomic silicon is subjected to oxidation tempering and mixed melting with the hot lead slag to prepare the basic glass, and the glass ceramics are obtained by regulating and controlling the heat treatment system of the basic glass. The method is simple in technological process, high in production efficiency and low in cost, achieves the collaborative high-value conversion target of the silicon-rich silicon slag and the lead slag, and is easy to industrially popularize and apply.

A method of fabrication of arsenic glass, comprising forming pellets of an arsenic-containing glass-forming mixture comprising arsenic in a range between about 30 and about 50% w/w and glass forming elements, and melting the pellets by direct heating to a temperature in a range between about 950 and about 1250 C.

A sealing system for isolating the environment inside a vitrification container from the outside environment comprises a vitrification container with a lid. The lid comprises two or more electrode seal assemblies through which two or more electrodes may be operatively positioned and extend down through the lid into the vitrification container. The electrodes may move axially up and down through the electrode seal assemblies or lock into place. The electrode seal assemblies each comprise a housing having two halves with recessed ring grooves. Sealing rings with a split may be placed into the grooves. Gas galleries may be machined or cast into the housing such that they are adjacent to the ring grooves. The gas galleries distribute gas onto the external faces of the sealing rings causing a change in pressure resulting in the sealing rings compressing onto the electrodes and forming a seal.

A method of forming a rope material from a loose feed scrap includes a number of operations to mechanically bind the loose feed scrap. The feed scrap is collected. The feed scrap is twisted and compressed, operations that may be performed simultaneously. This twisted and compressed feed scrap, now in the form of a rope material, is then fed into a melter system.

Embodiments disclosed herein include methods and systems for melting or augmenting a melt rate of material in a melter using electromagnetic radiation with a frequency between 0.9 GHz and 10 GHz. In some examples, a power and/or frequency of radiation used may be selected so as to control a temperature of a cold cap in the melter while maintaining emissions from the melter below a threshold level. In this manner, examples described herein may provide for efficient and safe melting and vitrification of radioactive wastes.

An apparatus and method of refining molten glass are disclosed. An upstream vessel contains molten glass, a downstream vessel is arranged downstream of the upstream vessel, and vacuum refining vessels are located between the upstream vessel and the downstream vessel and are in separate, alternating fluid communication with the upstream vessel and in separate, alternating fluid communication with the downstream vessel.

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a set of mass-produced glass containers, a raw material composition, and a set of resulting mass-produced glass containers, wherein the method comprises obtaining successive batches of raw material including, in a certain percentage of at least 80% by weight, a mixture of, for the most part, predominantly transparent pieces of recovered post-consumer glass and with a heterogeneous and variable chromatic composition in successive batches, melting the successive batches of raw material, and automatically manufacturing the set of predominantly transparent mass-produced containers with an identical shape, automatically detecting and rejecting the manufactured containers exhibiting dimensional and/or safety defects causing alterations in the shape and/or geometry of the container above predefined tolerances, ignoring the chromatic and/or aesthetic manufacturing defects, and filling all the containers from the set of non-rejected mass-produced containers with the same content and labeling with an identical label.