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Container and Flat Glass Manufacturing

Glass Melting Furnaces. Applications where several pieces of conventional equipment struggle to attain only marginal efficiency provides an opportunity for the Cloud Chamber Scrubber (CCS) to showcase its unique capabilities as a multi-pollutant device. Container / float glass manufacturing is a typical example. Following other successful applications in the glass industry, a pilot study to ...

Mar. 26, 2007

By Tri-Mer Corporation

11 Å tobermorite ion exchanger from recycled container glass

Waste container glass cullet has been evaluated as a feedstock material for the hydrothermal synthesis of tobermorite, a cation exchanger. Accordingly, it is demonstrated that essentially phase–pure 11 Å tobermorite, Ca5Si6O16 (OH) 2 · 4H2O, can be obtained from a stoicheiometrically–adjusted mixture of waste glass cullet and calcium oxide in aqueous sodium hydroxide at 100°C. A batch sorption ...

Sep. 26, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Lead and ceramic in glass industry

The lead content in recycled glass no longer poses a problem in the glass industry. Cullet recycled by REDWAVE-XRF provides superior results according to glass plants. The lead content in glass is even below the quality limits required by law. Experiences of glass plants and plant operators: The REDWAVE-XRF sorting system by BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH for separation of leaded pieces of ...

Dec. 4, 2012

By REDWAVE a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH

Realising the value of recovered glass: An update

Around 1.5 million tonnes of container glass were recycled in the twelve months to June 2008, 200,000 tonnes more than a year earlier. However, although there was an increase in the amount of cullet going into remelt applications – including domestic container manufacture, glass wool and export – the majority of the increase was absorbed by the aggregates market. Moreover, the amount of cullet ...

Sep. 1, 2008

By WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme)

Monitoring Air/Fuel Mixtures in Glass and Glass Fiber Manufacturing case study

Measurement of Premix Gas. To produce the desired flame in a glass forehearth or when making fiberglass (glass fiber) insulation, an air/fuel pre-mixer is used. The pre-mixer combines compressed natural gas or propane with air and this mixture is then piped to the process burners At the burner, a fuelrich or fuel-lean flame is produced depending on the air/ fuel ratio selected. In many ...

Nov. 24, 2014

By Ametek Process Instruments - THERMOX

Glass Recycling Factory - Case Study

Adjusting the specification according to the dewatering target. This factory recycles glass and processes them into small pieces which can be used for making glass bottles. Nevertheless, the pieces of glass need to be washed before having been shipped to another factory where the final product will be made and this cleaning water needs to be treated somehow. They had been using a belt ...

Jul. 28, 2014

By AMCON Inc.

Glass crusher for FOOD & BEVERAGES recycling

Cogelme Glass Crusher in a very efficient manner destroys defected or expired wine, beer and other beverages glass bottles, as well as jars with food inside and helps to obtain pure glass and pure organic materials. Multiple benefits delivered to the food recyclers: The glass containers can be crushed to adjustable sizes, in base of the needs. Cogelme ...

Oct. 10, 2016

By Cogelme S.r.l.

Case study - Separation of glass ceramics and leaded glass with X-ray fluorescence technology

Customer For more than 100 years the German company Reiling has been working in the field of recycling. In its founding year, Reiling began simple commodity trading but developed during the 50's into one of the glass recycling specialists in Germany. The formerly small business, now in its fourth generation, has grown into a substantial group of companies. Nevertheless, Reiling ...

Feb. 4, 2015

By REDWAVE a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH

Case study: Mixed broken glass cleaning

Challenge A Midwest recycling center had placed an air-knife unit to remove paper from their mixed broken glass, but found that many items contained in the end product still contained contaminations such as plastic caps, aluminum cans, and plastics. This company came to General Kinematics to look for an air-knife solution to provide a cleaner glass stream. ...

Apr. 19, 2011

By General Kinematics

Glass Manufacturing Industry - Pollution Prevention Guidelines

Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects. The guidelines represent state-of-the-art thinking on how to reduce pollution emissions from the production process. In many cases, the guidelines provide numerical targets for reducing pollution, as well as maximum ...

Jan. 1, 1998

By The World Bank

Glass Bottles – the elephant in the room for sustainable wine

Originally Published at - http://ecoopportunity.net/ Over the past couple of weeks (whilst I have been avoiding writing the next in the sustainability and wine series for these pages) there have been some interesting goings-on in the space of sustainability and wine. One of my hobby-horses, or it would probably be better described as a hobby-sheep given the amount I bleat on about it, ...

Jun. 19, 2011

By Aura Sustainability

Environmental Profile of the Stone, Clay, Glass and Concrete Industry

Introduction The EPA"s Office of Compliance has developed a series of profiles or notebooks containing information on selected major industries. These notebooks, which focus on key indicators that holistically present air, water, and land pollutant release data, have been thoroughly reviewed by experts from both inside and outside the EPA. What will you find in this ...

Sep. 1, 1995

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Glass Cleaning Machines Offer Safe, Fast Cleaning

Glass cleaning machines are used for cleaning windows, mirrors, decorative fixtures, and similar surfaces. These machines have many advantages. They are easy to use and very efficient. They do not scratch or damage glass. Most importantly, they use very little water and are safe to operate. When you use dry vapor systems to clean glass, you rarely need to use a detergent, making the cleaning ...

Jan. 18, 2013

By Daimer Industries Inc.

Glass blended rapidly with abrasion resistant rotary mixer

While most reading this article may be unfamiliar with the Kopp Glass name, most are likely familiar with Kopp Glass products. From a humble beginning more than 80 years ago, as a manufacturer of red glass for railroad signals, Kopp now claims to be the world's leading producer of precision molded industrial quality technical glass. The company is known worldwide among the ...

Dec. 9, 2014

By Munson Machinery Company, Inc.

A study on PbO in CRT funnel glass at high–temperature condition

Glasses from the end–of–life Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) represent a pressing environmental problem, especially the funnel glass containing high lead concentration. To avoid lead contamination and re–utilise it, it is of great importance to study the separation process of lead contained in the funnel glass. In this study, the microstructure of scrap funnel glass and molten funnel glass were analysed ...

Jan. 30, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

The Spectrex particle counter used in study of pharmaceutical glass delamination.

Delamination, or the generation of glass flakes in vials used to contain parenteral drug products, continues to be a persistent problem in the pharmaceutical industry. To understand all of the factors that might contribute to delamination, a statistical design of experiments was implemented to describe this loss of chemical integrity for glass vials. Phase I of this study focused on the effects ...

May 12, 2011

By Spectrex Corporation

Survey of Waste Glass Collection & Recycling Arrangements in UK Local Authorities

1. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study is to inform WRAP of the range of contractual arrangements for waste container glass collection and recycling adopted by local authorities throughout the UK. The key objectives are: To further WRAP’s understanding of the waste container glass supply chain, in particular with regardto collection of waste ...

Jan. 1, 2003

By WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme)

Effect of silver-doped phosphate-based glasses on bacterial biofilm growth

Silver-containing phosphate-based glasses were found to reduce the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, which are leading causes of nosocomial infections. The rates of glass degradation (1.27 to 1.41 µg·mm–2·h–1) and the corresponding silver release were found to account for the variation in biofilm growth ...

Aug. 1, 2008

By American Society for Microbiology

In the United Kingdom, increased recycling targets for plastic and glass packaging

On 20 December 2016, the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 1146) in the United Kingom will come into force. This means that companies involved in the manufacturing of raw packaging material, manufacturing of packaging, importing of packaging/packaging materials, filling of packaging and placing on the market of packaged products will be ...

Jan. 3, 2017

By Enhesa - Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

PEI`s new beverage container deposit system

It's said that change is inevitable in everything, except vending machines. Change has come to Prince Edward Island's long-standing ban on the sale of carbonated beverages sold in non-refillable containers. Fans of refilling -- the most environmentally sustainable beverage container system -- will be sad that this lone hold-out is becoming more like every other jurisdiction. However, they can ...

Jun. 30, 2008

By EcoLog Environmental Resources Group

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