THE DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF 100-PERCENT OXYGEN OIL COMBUSTION FOR GLASS MELTERS

Oil is the primary fuel used to melt glass in many parts of the world. Even where natural gas is abundant, oil may be the preferred back-up fuel. Coming Incorporated has glass melting applications that require oil as both the primary and back-up fuel. As conventional furnaces con verted to oxy-gas, the requirement to supply back-up oxy-oil became im perative. In addition, oxygen atomization was required to avoid unnece ssary NOx formation, as would occur with air atomization. The developm ent of an oxygen atomized light-to-heavy oil-oxygen burner is traced f rom concept to laboratory to testing in a full-scale furnace to comple te conversion of a test furnace to system commercialization in a large production color television panel furnace.