文档介绍：Glass and Energy
CHRISTOPHER W. SINTON
Alfred University
Alfred, New York, United States
1. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
2. Types of Glass The atomic or molecular structure of solid materials
3. Introduction mercial Glass Manufacturing can generally be found in two states: ordered and
4. Energy disordered. If the atoms of a material are ordered in a
repeated array throughout, the structure will be an
ordered three-dimensional pattern. This is a crystal-
Glossary line material. Solid materials that lack long-range
atomic order are noncrystalline or amorphous. When
container glass The largest glass sector; formed by a two-
a material is cooled from a liquid state to a solid, its
stage process of initial forming by pressing followed by
blowing to obtain the finished hollow shape. formation into a crystalline or amorphous solid
cullet Scrap or waste glass that is added to the batch depends on how easily the random atomic structures
materials. of the liquid anize into an ordered state while
float glass Flat glass that is made by floating molten glass cooling. Factors such position and cooling
on a pool of molten tin. rate are important. Rapid cooling of a liquid
glass A material with a three-work of enhances the formation of an amorphous structure
atoms that forms a solid lacking the long-range since the material is given little time to reach an
periodicity typical of crystalline materials. ordered state. This is a glass. Figure 1 shows a
optical fibers Very high-purity silica glass fibers used parison of the ordered arrangement of crystalline
transmit light for munications. silicon dioxide and the disordered arrangement of a
oxy-fuel firing The replacement of bustion air with
silicon dioxide glass. mon definition of a glass
oxygen in a glass furnace.
recuperator A continuous heat exchanger that preheats was given by the physicist W. H. Zachariasen, who
combustion air with the heat from the exhaust gases. stated that glass is an exte