A briquette for use as a mineral charge in a cupola furnace for the production of mineral wool fibres is produced by combining: a) recycled waste mineral wool selected from i) waste mineral wool comprising uncured sugar containing binder, ii) waste mineral wool comprising cured binder, iii) waste mineral wool without binder and iv) combination thereof, b) cement, and c) additional sugar(s) to form a mouldable mixture and moulding and curing the mouldable mixture to form the briquette.

The invention relates to a glass production method comprising the production of a glass precursor mixture for a glass furnace, in which water, sand and sodium carbonate are mixed in weight proportions of between 0 and 5%, 40 and 65%, and greater than 0 and at most 25% respectively, and, after at least 10 minutes, calcium oxide is added in a weight proportion of between 1 and 20% of the total. The invention relates to a method for producing glass using a mixture containing, in particular, calcium oxide, and a glass melting furnace, said method and furnace using a burner with a flame directed at the glass batch.

The present application discloses a method for preparing porous glass for an electronic cigarette, comprising the following steps: heating quartz glass to a molten state for granulation; mixing boron-silicon powder and quartz glass granules, and heating a mixture to a temperature between 600° C. to 900° C. to cover peripheries of the quartz glass granules with the boron-silicon powder; and sintering the quartz glass granules covered with boron-silicon in a preset mold to obtain the porous glass for the electronic cigarette. The technical solution according to the present application can greatly improve the smoking taste of the electronic cigarette.

A fluorite synthetic stone comprises: (a) a glass matrix comprising Ca, Si and O, and having a predetermined weight ratio of Ca to Si; and (b) CaF.sub.2 crystals dispersed in the glass matrix at a concentration of at least about 70 wt.%. A method of making fluorite synthetic stones includes formulating a particulate mixture comprising: CaF.sub.2 crystals at a concentration of at least about 70 wt.%; and an excipient having a predetermined weight ratio of Ca to Si. Aggregates are prepared from the particulate mixture. The aggregates are heat treated to form a plurality of fluorite synthetic stones, where each synthetic stone comprises: a glass matrix comprising Ca, Si and O; and CaF.sub.2 crystals dispersed in the glass matrix at a concentration of at least about 70 wt.%.

Optical glass, a preparation method thereof, a backlight module and a display module. The optical glass comprises a glass substrate and optical masterbatches, which are dispersed in the glass substrate, each optical masterbatch comprises a quantum dot fluorescent agent inner core and an encapsulation shell which encloses the quantum dot fluorescent agent inner core. A quantum dot fluorescent agent is protected by the encapsulation shell and the luminous efficiency is high; when the optical glass is applied to a display module, the color gamut may be improved; moreover, the glass is capable of preventing against the invasion of water vapor, even the quantum dot fluorescent agent at an edge of the glass rarely fails, and an edge failure size is basically avoided; meanwhile, the expansion coefficient is small, and an expansion space reserved during assembly is extremely small.

A method for forming a glass frit for additive manufacturing includes providing a mixture having at least one silicon (Si) compound, at least one calcium (Ca) compound, and at least one zirconium (Zr) compound; melting the mixture at a temperature of at least 1400° C.; cooling the mixture to room temperature to obtain the glass frit including at least 50 wt. % SiO.sub.2, at least 30 wt. % CaO, and at least 10 wt. % ZrO.sub.2.

A bulk material handling system includes a majors material handling system including bulk material storage modules and bulk material dispensing modules. The dispensing modules include bulk material dosing assemblies and docking assemblies. A bulk material handling method includes conveying bulk material from a mobile bulk material container into a stationary bulk material container at a glass manufacturing facility via dense phase pneumatic conveying.

A flow rate fluctuation of the liquid raw material of the organic siloxane supplied to the vaporizer is suppressed and a deposition density of the silica fine particles is uniformizes. The method of manufacturing the porous glass base material according to the present invention, a liquid organic siloxane raw material stored in a raw material tank of internal pressure P.sub.1 is controlled by a mass flow controller at a predetermined flow rate and pumped through pipe of internal pressure P.sub.2 to a vaporizer, the liquid raw material is vaporized in the vaporizer and supplied as a gas raw material to a burner, and the silica fine particles formed by burning the gas raw material in the burner are deposited to form a porous glass base material. The present invention is characterized by the method of manufacture described above, wherein P.sub.1≤P.sub.2 is satisfied.

A briquette for use as a mineral charge in a cupola furnace for the production of mineral wool fibres is produced by—combining: a) recycled waste mineral wool selected from i) waste mineral wool comprising uncured sugar containing binder, ii) waste mineral wool comprising cured binder, iii) waste mineral wool without binder and iv) combination thereof, b) cement, and c) additional sugar(s) to form a mouldable mixture and—moulding and curing the mouldable mixture to form the briquette.

Methods of forming a glass-ceramic article, the method are provided. Embodiments of the method may include initially nucleating a precursor glass composition at a first nucleation temperature and maintaining the first nucleation temperature for a pre-nucleating time period to produce a pre-nucleated crystallizable glass composition, wherein the pre-nucleated crystallizable glass composition comprises 5 wt % to 20 wt % crystalline phase ASTM C1365-18, forming the pre-nucleated crystallizable glass composition into an initial 3D shape; further nucleating the initial 3D shape for a nucleating time period to a second nucleation temperature to produce a nucleated crystallizable glass composition; and ceramming the nucleated crystallizable glass composition to a crystallization temperature and maintaining the ceramming temperature for a crystallization time period to produce the glass-ceramic article. The glass-ceramic article may have a final 3D shape is within 0.1 mm of the original design specifications.