Cogeneration from glass furnace waste heat recovery
CA 1233813 A · Owner: Owens-Illinois, Inc. · Inventors: Sturgill, Dennis T.
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There is disclosed an apparatus and method of recovering a portion of the waste heat produced in a high temperature industrial process,such as a glass melting furnace,where the furnace has at least a pair of regenerators which are alternately used to preheat the combustion air and serve as hot exhaust heat storage means. The hot exhaust gases from the process are passed through a heat exchanger where the heat is indirectly transferred to the clean compressed air at 100 psi from the compressor of a Brayton cycle energy recovery system with the hot compressed air being expanded in a high performance turbine. The exhaust from the turbine will be at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature …
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- Granted March 8, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 8, 2005.
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