67th Conference on Glass Problems [Hardcover]

This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of papers presented at the 67th Conference on Glass Problems at The Ohio State University, October 31-November 1, 2006.
Provides a state-of-the-art collection of recent papers on glass problems as presented at the 67th Conference on Glass Problems.
Sections on furnaces, refractories, raw materials, and environmental issues are included.

Foreword ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

MARKET TRENDS

Container Glass Update 3
Rick Bayer

SAFETY

Safety in Construction 15
Laura Gray

Elimination of Heat Stress in the Glass Manufacturing Environment 27
Pat Pride

The Gravity of Gravity--Safety's Number One Enemy 31
Terry Berg

The Legacy of Glass Research Activities by the U.S. Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program 35
Elliott P. Levine and Keith Jamison

MODELING

Application of Rigorous Model-Based Predictive Process Control in the Glass Industry 49
O.S. Verheijen, O.M.G.C. Op den Camp, A.C.M. Backx, and L. Husiman

Use and Application of Modeling and Their Reliability 55
H.P.H. Muysenberg, J. Chmelar, and G. Neff

ENVIRONMENT

Air Emission Requirements - Past, Present and Future 73
C. Philip Ross

Dry Sorbent Injection of Trona for SOx Mitigation 85
John Maziuk

ENERGY

Energy Balances of Glass Furnaces: Parameters l£'