Glass production process chart

The definition of glass according to the American Heritage Dictionary is:

• Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminium oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.

Oxyfuel furnace Endfired recuperative glass tank Recuperative unit melter Endfired regenerative furnace Crossfired regenerative furnace Secondary operations Floating and Forming Endfired (regenerative) Crossfired Discontinuous glass production Sand and other materials Mixer