Saint Gobain
Commissioning expected date
Recovery and use of waste heat for decarbonisation of flat glass production - IDENTIFIED BY INCITE
This is a first-of-a-kind demonstration at commercial-scale that will entail the adaptation of existing technology used in the container glass sector to the float glass production process.
Link to the technique (Basic Information)
Participant Companies
Project partners
Saint-Gobain Glass
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Under construction
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 December 202130 April 2025
- 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
Percentage reduction of GHG emissions:
7.0Avg
%
GHG emissions data
5,600.0Total GHG emission (CO2_eq ton/year)
Avg
Energy consumption reduction (%):
10.0Avg
%
Project
Batch and Cullet Preheating
The Batch and Cullet Preheating (BCP) project will implement and validate an innovative technology that recovers and reuses waste heat from furnace fumes in the float glass production process of Saint-Gobain’s glass plant in Aniche, Northern France.
- Project partners
- Saint-Gobain Glass