Join us on the 5th June at Lucideon (formerly Ceram), in Stoke-on-Trent! The fee, including a buffet lunch and refreshments, is £110. Proceeding Furnace Solutions is a training day on Combustion of Fuel in Furnaces. This will take place on the Wednesday.
PROGRAMME
Time - Title - Author - Institute/Company
9.30
Registration & Coffee
Morning Session Chairman: Matthew Demmon (MKD32 Ltd.)
10.00
Borate Raw Materials for the Glass Industry
David Lever
Rio Tinto, UK
10.30
Platinum Coated Furnace Blocks
James Crowe
Johnson Matthey, UK
11.00
Coffee + biscuits
11.30
Benefits of Colloidal Silica Bonded Monolithic Refractories
Donald Park
Magneco Metrel UK Ltd., England
12.00
Glass defects from superstructure refractories – solutions and improvements
Johannes Schadock
RHI GLAS GmbH, Germany
12.30
Complete model-based control of glass production
Erik Muijsenberg
Glass Service B.V., The Netherlands
13.00
Buffet lunch
Afternoon Session Chairman: Dr. Richard Hulme
Guardian Industries Corp., USA
14.00
SGT Business
14.15
The ‘CHEETAH’ Energy Efficiency Improvement Strategy, a step forward in
low-carbon glass production process
Andries Habraken*, Dr.Ing. Hans van Limpt, Adriaan Lankhorst, Marco van
Kersbergen, Stef Lessman *Speaker
CelSian Glass & Solar B.V., The Netherlands
15.00
Container glassmaking at high cullet levels – potentials, challenges and
perspectives
Sven-Roger Kahl
Ardagh Group, The Netherlands
15.30
Hot batch – the future of batch preparation
Dr. Phillip Zippe
Zippe, Germany
16.00
Tea + Biscuits
16.30
Information system integration for a float glass hot end
Sebastien Cornil
Fives Stein, France
17.00
BOC Hotspot Boosting for flexible operations and security of glass
Neil Simpson
The BOC Group, UK
17.30
Presentation of ‘The Michael Garvey Award’ -for the day´s best paper.
Courtesy of Guardian Industries Corporation
17.45
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Training Day
4th June 2014
Time - Speaker - Topic
09:00
Registration & Coffee
10:00
Peter West
Combustion in Glass Furnace Basics
10:45
Mike Davies
Regenerator and Recuperator Design
11:30
Coffee
12:00
Richard Pont
Regenerator Burner Systems
12:45
Lunch
13:45
Neil Simpson
Oxy-Fuel Combustion
14:30
Alan Stephens
Forehearths
15:15
Coffee
15:45
Stuart Hakes
Control Systems
16:30
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