Commissioning expected date
Novel hybrid wool glass furnace at industrial scale - IDENTIFIED BY INCITE
The furnace consists of hybrid technology that electrically heats the glass wool furnace to an unprecedented level of 50% of the required temperature. For the remaining heat requirement, the furnace's combustion process is improved through the injection of pure oxygen which is supplied by a separately implemented oxygen plant.
Link to the technique (Basic Information)
https://ec.europa.eu/assets/cinea/project_fiches/innovation_fund/101103063.pdf
Relevant alternative technique
Hybrid glass wool furnaces provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional flame furnaces that are used to produce molten glass.
Participant Companies
Project partners
Saint-Gobain Glass
Technology provider
Saint-Gobain Glass
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Planned
Technology readiness level (TRL) 9
actual system proven in operational environment (competitive manufacturing in the case of key enabling technologies)
- Date of development of the technique
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1 September 202231 December 2024
- Environmental purpose of the innovative technique
- Decarbonisation
- Energy efficiency
- Relevant industrial sector
- Glass
- IED activity
- 3.3 Manufacture of glass including glass fibre with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day
Locations
Environmental performance
GHG emissions data:
100,000.0Avg
Energy consumption reduction (%):
26.0Avg
%
Project
HFP
Saint-Gobain's Hybrid Furnace project (HFP) implements and validate the first hybrid glass wool furnace that receives 50% of its heating power from electricity. HFP is developed at the Saint-Gobain Isover plant in Etten-Leur, Netherlands. It will lead to a relative greenhouse gas emission avoidance of 22% compared to the reference scenario and an annual reduction in natural gas consumption of around 50 gigawatt hours (GWh).
https://ec.europa.eu/assets/cinea/project_fiches/innovation_fund/101103063.pdf
- Project partners
- Saint-Gobain Glass
- Technology provider
- Saint-Gobain Glass