HORN® builds a wide variety of glass melting furnaces for its customers, ranging from the usual end fired furnace to the all electric melting furnace. Furnace selection depends on individual customer requirements and demands.
Due to its high flexibility and its low energy consumption the regenerative end fired furnace is the working horse of the glass industry. Most mass produced glass products such as bottles and containers of all kind, tableware and glass fibre can be produced with a minimum of fossil fuel firing and thus carbon dioxide emission.
In comparison to other furnaces the cross fired furnaces can be designed in larger overall dimensions due to the larger firing zone because of the lateral burner arrangement. The only limitation is the furnace width due to crown span length.
Recuperators for small furnaces, i.e. up to 80 t/d are double shell recuperators. For melting capacities between 100 to 450 t/d tube bundle recuperators are used. The air preheating output of recuperators is far below the output of regenerators.
Oxyfuel furnaces are usually designed as cross fired melting furnaces where the fuel used (mostly natural gas) is combusted together with oxygen. The greatest advantage is in the low energy consumption, since little nitrogen is used for combustion.
In general all electric furnaces with a cold top are used typically for a production range of 5 – 80 t/d. It is possible to increase melting capacity up to 200 t/d. More capacity is possible with sufficient developing time. For this furnace type energy is not supplied by means of fossil fuels, but exclusively by means of electric energy supplied by molybdenum electrodes.
Float glass furnaces are the largest type, both with regard to dimensions and to the overall melting output. These furnaces are close to the limit of constructive possibilities. Furnace capacities are usually between 600 – 800 t/d.
Hybrid furnaces combine the combustion of a fuel (mostly natural gas) with a highly increased proportion of electric power. For the combustion, an end-fired as well as a cross-fired setup can be used.
HORN® offers three types of combustion systems to handle most heating mediums. They are completely preassembled, wired and tested in our workshops to guarantee the customers short time installations on-site and high quality.
HORN® provides several types of burners for different applications.
HORN® provides various electrical equipment for the glass melting process.
A constant glass level in the melting end is a very important control component in the glass melting process. Glass level variations influence the steady operation of the furnace and have a significant influence on the gob weight.
HORN®’s batch charger type HVR® is the most classic and popular batch charger of HORN® Glass Industries AG on the market. There are three different types of it.
HORN® provides cooling water systems with different possibilities to cool down the heated water.
The primary aim of bubbling is to intensify the melting process by strengthening and stabilising the glass flow.
The tank and throat cooling are designed to cool by means of permanent and uniform air or water flow (throat).
The flue gas butterfly valve is exclusively designed for the regulation of the through flow volume of the gas in the flue gas duct. It regulates the tank pressure in a glass melting tank.
HORN® has found a “Made in Germany” solution for the important field of flue gas/combustion air reversing systems: the reversing system types RDS-F (for float glass furnaces) and RDS-E (for end fired furnaces) developed in-house.
The horizontal stirring appliance (HST) is used in float glass furnaces solely for the conditioning of the molten glass at the neck to the melting area.
An inconspicuous, but nonetheless essential detail at a float glass melting furnace is the neck cooler, which has a considerable impact on the quality of the float glass.
