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Glass & Optical Materials
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Waste Not, Want Not—Inexpensive Glass-Ceramics from Waste
Jeremy P. Wu, Rees D. Rawlings and Aldo R. Boccaccini
Dept. of Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Ivo Dlouhy and Zdenek Chlup
Brittle Fracture Group, Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
A mixture of titania-rich iron-making slag and waste bottle glass is heat treated to form a glass-ceramic that has useful mechanical properties.
Oxygen Sensor for Float Production Lines
Paul R. Laimböck
Read-Ox & Consultancy B.V., Heeze, Netherlands
Ruud G.C. Beerkens
Glass Group, TNO Industry &nd Science, Eindhoven, Netherlands
A special oxygen sensor has been developed for the continuous measurement of the equilibrium oxygen pressure and oxygen content in the molten tin in the float bath of a float-glass production line.
New Control System Increases Glass Quality, Production Yields
H.P.H. Muijsenberg
Glass Service BV, Maastricht, The Netherlands
G. Neff
Glass Service USA Inc., Orlando, Fla.
Josef Müller, J. Chmelar, R. Bodi and F. Matustik
Glass Service Inc., Vsetin, Czech Republic
A group of advanced control techniques has been developed for automatic control of glass production that results in process stabilization, increased glass quality and energy savings.
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Refractory Ceramics
Rheological Behavior of Polymeric-Fiber-Containing Castables
Rafael Salomão, V.G. Domiciano and V.C. Pandolfelli
Materials Engineering Dept., Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, S.P., Brazil
Proper control of geometry, composition and fiber content provides suitable mixing and rheological behavior.
Gel-Bonded Alumina–Silicon Carbide–Carbon-Based Blast-Furnace Trough Castable
Ritwik Sarkar, Somnath Mukherjee and Arup Ghosh
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India
Incorporation of an organic fiber improved the densification, strength, corrosion and penetration properties, under dried and fired conditions, of gel-bonded Al2O3–SiC–C-based castables that included a SiO2-sol binder for the working lining of a blast furnace trough.
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