Efficiency/production increase

Costs reduction can lead to a significant profit increase, but mostly production increase is much more valuable. Let´s assume an average end-port furnace: fuel reduction of 5% results in a profit increases of 270,000 Euro per year. A pull increase of 10% results in a profit of 1.5 mio Euro per year.

YIELD can calculate both, the consumption changes, the costs and the profits.

Pull increase - Oxy-boosting

The installation of additional oxy-fuel burners is improving the heat transfer and thus can be used to boost the production. YIELD allows to calculate the technical and financial aspects of oxy-fuel boosting and contains all required technical and financial background information. The calculation considers factors like oxygen price, reduced wall losses, increased heat transfer, reduced flue gas volume and allows to compare liquid versus VPSA oxygen supply.

Pull increase - Oxy-conversion

Oxy-Fuel conversion means converting the furnace from air-firing to complete oxy-fuel firing. The increased combustion temperatures and efficiency finally result in production increases. As the financial and technical considerations are quite complex, YIELD includes all required background information to calculate the financial and technical effects. The calculation includes factors like oxygen price, reduced wall losses, increased heat transfer, reduced flue gas volume and allows to compare liquid versus VPSA oxygen supply.

Pull increase - E-boosting

Electrical boosting can be used to increase the pull of a glass melting furnace by supplying additional energy for the melting. With YIELD, you are able to calculate the costs related with the e-boosting considering CDM.

CFD/Consulting

The financial and technical effects of the presented production increase approaches can be calculated by YIELD. YIELD is a powerful tool to get evaluations of different technologies. The installation of the approaches requires a more sophisticated analysis of limiting boundary conditions. We suggest to contact our engineering team at consulting@glassglobal.com, before starting the installation.

We can help you by initiating CFD-Studies, contacting suppliers and providing sophisticated studies.

Quality increase

Increasing the pack-to-melt ratio results in pure profit increase, but it depends on more than the furnace dates only. Please contact our experts at consulting@glassglobal.com. We can help you realising increased pack-to melt ratios

For further information please contact our engineering team at consulting@glassglobal.com.