US 12,215,051 B2
Glass production method and industrial glass-making facility
Hervé Charles, Arques (FR); Sébastien Donze, Arques (FR); Xavier Ibled, Arques (FR); François Famchon, Arques (FR); and Jean-Marie Bonningues, Arques (FR)
Assigned to ARC FRANCE, Arques (FR)
Appl. No. 17/288,116
Filed by ARC FRANCE, Arques (FR)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079487
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089206, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1860020 (FR), filed on Oct. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0380464 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. C03B 1/02 (2006.01); C03C 1/02 (2006.01); C03C 3/078 (2006.01); C03C 3/112 (2006.01)
CPC C03C 1/026 (2013.01) [C03B 1/02 (2013.01); C03C 3/078 (2013.01); C03C 3/112 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Method for manufacturing glass comprising supplying solid raw materials in a glass-making furnace, said raw materials comprising granular glassy sodium silicate and having a moisture content of less than 1% by weight, and powdery calcium oxide, wherein the powdery calcium oxide is anhydrous and is at least one of a quicklime or calcinated dolomite.