Glass Furnace Nox Control With Gas Reburn: The Field Test

The glass industry is faced with progressively more stringent environmental regulations, particularly for NOx, in regions of ozone nonattainment. The overall objective of this development and demonstration program is to commercialize gas reburn technology (GR), previously successfully applied in large boilers and incinerators, to large glass furnaces commonly found in the manufacture of flat, container and speciality glass. Previous phases of the program have been presented in GRI Topical Reports and at the 1995 Conference on Glass Problems. This paper focuses primarily on the use of this data to scale the design to a large, sideport regenerative furnace manufacturing container glass.