67th Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 28, Issue 1

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 Determining Energy Consumption of Glass Melt Process 103
Ruud Beerkens

Leone Industries: Experience with Cullet Filter/Preheater 117
Larry Barrickman and Peter Leone

Petroleum Coke Technology for Glass Melting Furnaces 127
M.A. Olin, R. Cabrera, I. Solis, and R. Valadez

Coal Gasification 139
John Brown

Preheating Devices for Future Glass Making -- A 2nd Generation Approach 149
Ann-Katrin Glusing

MELTING AND REFRACTORIES

Melting and Refining Conditions in an all Electric Melter for Borosilicate Glass 167
Matthias Lindig

Recent Developments in Submerged Combustion Melting 175
David Rue, John Wagner, and Grigory Aronchik

New Solutions for Checkers Working under Oxidizing and Reducing Conditions 183
G. Heilemann, B. Schmalenbach, T. Weichert, S. Postrach, A. Lynker, and G. Gelbmann

ER 2001 SLX: Very Low Exudation AZS Product for Glass Furnace Superstructure 195
M. Gaubil, I. Cabodi, C. Morand, and B. Escaravage

Author Index 203