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Glass melting furnace never stops after it's started. If it cools down it's basically destroyed so yeah, they run uninterrupted for years. Any maintenance or fi
by jskrablin 3y ago
Glass melting furnace never stops after it's started. If it cools down it's basically destroyed so yeah, they run uninterrupted for years. Any maintenance or fixes need to account for that.
- Mistletoe 3y agoHow do they account for power outages? Huge generators? Or is it gas fired?
- iancmceachern 3y agoFrom what I've read its gas
- pfdietz 3y agoThere are electrically heated glass furnaces. They work by immersing electrodes in the molten glass, which is electrically conductive, if somewhat resistive. I imagine they could use gas for startup though. The use I saw for this was in making fiberglass from recycled glass cullet.