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Glass and Frit

Industry leaders in glass technology and gas supply . . . ask Air Products and expect more

Whether you are producing container, flat, fiber or specialty glass, frit, or mineral wool, Air Products has industrial gases, technologies, and expertise to help improve your operations. We are the leader in proprietary oxygen enrichment and oxy-fuel technologies that, with minimal capital investment, can help you increase production, lower fuel costs, reduce emissions, and improve your operation. In addition to oxygen, we also supply nitrogen, hydrogen, helium, and rare gases for applications ranging from atmosphere control and inerting to particle size reduction. Whatever your needs—gas supply, combustion systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling or engineering and equipment optimization—Air Products has the people, products, and services to help you succeed.

​To Make Glass Better, Put Air Products in the Mix!

For more than 70 years, primary glass and frit producers have turned to Air Products’ continuously evolving portfolio of oxygen solutions to improve combustion and enable additional benefits, including:
  • Increased production
  • Reduced fuel consumption and emissions
  • Enhanced quality
Processed glass producers rely on us for safe and efficient supply and use of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, argon, and specialty gases for a number of applications involved in forming, assembly, and recycling of products.

Engineering and Equipment Optimization

Installation and Start-up Support

We can help with operational readiness inspections, operations and safety training, and process and applications knowledge

Ongoing Operations

Operations audits, troubleshooting assistance and process optimization can help to maximize operating performance and produce cost savings

Preliminary Design/Project Initiation and Support

We can guide you through all phases of evaluation, development and integration to help create ideal configurations for cost and performance requirements

Advanced Clean Energy Laboratory—Virtual Demonstrations to Global Locations

The Advanced Clean Energy Laboratory can facilitate development and full-scale testing of combustion systems using actual customer fuels. Plus a remote video imaging systems enables real-time participation in testing via the Internet.
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Improve your glass or frit production or processing operations.

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PRISM® VSA oxigén generátorok

Az Air Products PRISM® VSA oxigén generátorai megbízható oxigén-ellátást biztosítanak, megfelelve az áramlási követelmények előírásainak. Nagy teljesítményű generátoraink rendkívül megbízható oxigén-ellátást nyújtanak és gazdaságosabbak a tehergépkocsikon szállított folyadékokhoz képest. A rendszerek moduláris megközelítése megkönnyíti az egyszerű telepítést és karbantartást, míg a szabványos tulajdonságok lehetővé teszik az üveggyártók speciális igényeinek kielégítését.

PRISM® VSA oxigéngenerátorok - T sorozat

PRISM® VSA oxigén generátor

Példa egy üveggyártásnál alkalmazott kemence CFD-modellezésére

Bevált számítási folyadékdinamikai modellezések

Kiterjedt házon belüli számítási folyadékdinamikai (computational fluid dynamics; CFD) modellezési szolgáltatásokkal rendelkezünk, melyek segíthetnek a kemence teljesítményének tervezésénél vagy vizsgálatánál. Szolgáltatásaink lehetővé teszik az üveggyártók számára, hogy kivizsgálják és kiértékeljék a termelékenység növelésének és a költségek csökkentésének lehetőségeit anélkül, hogy kockázatnak tennék ki a gyártási folyamatukat. A modellezési tanulmányok gyors, akkreditált eredményeket adnak, amik alapján meghatározható az Ön működéséhez ajánlott rendszertípus.

Gases

Air Products gases, typically provided in gaseous and liquid form, enable customers in a wide range of industries to improve their environmental performance, product quality, and productivity.

Acetylene

Acetylene is the primary fuel for oxy-fuel welding and is the fuel of choice for repair work and general cutting and welding, Acetylene produces the hottest and most concentrated primary flame of all industrial fuel gases.

Argon

Argon is used in many applications in glass manufacturing. It is colorless, non-reactive, non-flammable and has low thermal conductivity.

Helium

Helium is used to protect the glass surface in fiber-optic glass production and to improve refining within the bubbling process during glass manufacturing.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is used in glass manufacturing for atmosphere control, cutting and polishing, heat treating, melting, and softening.

Nitrogen

Nitrogen is used in glass manufacturing for atmosphere control and flat glass delamination.

Oxygen

Oxygen is used in glass manufacturing applications like cutting/polishing, heat treating, melting/softening, bubbling, and oxygen-enhanced combustion.

Rare Gases

Useful as ion beam sources to clean, cut or weld materials as well as their unique ability to produce bright light, which may be in the form of a laser or a light source. Also used in propulsion engines or in window insulation.

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