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Introduction to glass products 2008. Technical Advisory Service. Glass products. Composition and manufacturing Glass properties Glavebel’s organisation Raw products Processed products How to recognize a type of glass Cutting and edge working.
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Introduction to glass products 2008 Technical Advisory Service
Glass products • Composition and manufacturing • Glass properties • Glavebel’s organisation • Raw products • Processed products • How to recognize a type of glass • Cutting and edge working
Glass products - Composition and manufacturing • continuous fabrication process ( 12 ans) • 500 m long • production capacity: 500 to 700 Tons / day • 2000 Tons melted glass in the furnace • 3 days between in and out
Glass products - Composition Sodalime silicate glass 73 % Sand SiO2 glass 15 % Soda Na2O melting 10 % Calcium CaO stabilising agent 2 % Addictives resistance, color, ...
Glass products – manufacturing: furnace Furnace 1600 °C 1050 °C
1580°C AIRINLET fume air FUME OUTLET left right Glass products – manufacturing: furnace
TOP Rollers Lift Out CVD Glass products – manufacturing: tin bath 1050 °C 600 °C
Glass products – manufacturing: tin bath • Tin: 7 cm deep (180 T) • Length: 70 m • Tin density: 6,5 kg/dm³ • Glass density: 2,3 kg/dm³
Glass products – manufacturing: cooling zone 600 °C 50 °C
Glass products – Some statistics A float line produces more or less 700 tons by day, it means: • 70 000 m² of 4 mm float by day • 35 full trucks by day • 900 m long of 4 mm float by hour • 22 km long of 4 mm float by day • 2 100 000 m² of 4 mm float by month
Glass products • Composition and manufacturing • Glass properties • Glavebel’s organisation • Raw products • Processed products • How to recognize a type of glass • Cutting and edge working
Glass products – Glas properties • Not crystalised solid • Perfectly elastic • No permanent deformation • Fragile break • Young’s modulus: 70 000 N/mm²
Glass products – Glas properties • Volume mass: 2500 kg/m³ 1 m² of 4 mm thickness = 10 kg 5 m² of 10 mm thickness = 125 kg • Note: m² of reduce meter (m²rs):1 mrs is equal to 1 m² in thickness 2 mm (5 kg/m²)
Glass products • Composition and manufacturing • Glass properties • AGC Flat Glass Europe’s organisation • Raw products • Processed products • How to recognize a type of glass • Cutting and edge working
Raw Glass Division Processed Glass Division AutomotiveMirrors Coatings ArchitecturalGlass Float SpecialProducts Laminated Glass Fire ResistantGlass Cast Glass Appliances UnprocessedMirrors
Glass products • Composition and manufacturing • Glass properties • AGC’s organisation • Raw products • Processed products • How to recognize a type of glass • Cutting and edge working
Glass products – Raw products Raw products: - Float • Patterned glass • Wired glass • Profiled glass • Glass blocks
Raw glass products - Float Melting elements(15 %) Stabilizing elements(15 %) Sand (70 %) Soda Limestone Dolomite Feldspath Furnace Tinted glass + metal oxydes
Raw glass products - Float • Characteritics: • Flat • Annealed (so cuttable) • Translucent • Clear or colored • Thicknesses: (extra thin)-3-4-5-6-8-10-12- 15-19-(22)-(25) mm • Maximum dimensions: 6 m x 3,21 m
Raw glass products - Float Clear Extra-clear Green Bronze Grey Pink Blue
BU Float - 18 units 2 2 2 4 3
Glass products – Raw products Raw products: - Float • Patterned glass • Wired glass • Profiled glass • Glass blocks
Glass products – Raw products Raw products: - Float • Patterned glass • Wired glass • Profiled glass • Glass blocks
Glass products – Raw products Raw products: - Float • Patterned glass • Wired glass • Profiled glass • Glass blocks
Glass products – Raw products Raw products: - Float • Patterned glass • Wired glass • Profiled glass • Glass blocks
Raw glass products – Glass bloks => Molted glass
Glass products • Composition and manufacturing • Glass properties • AGC’s organisation • Raw products • Processed products • How to recognize a type of glass • Cutting and edge working
Processed products • Coated glass • Mirrors • Glass with treated surfaces • Laminated glass • Tempered glass (toughened and HS) • Chemically toughened glass • Curved glass • Double glazing • Miscellaneous
Processed products – Coated glass • Sort of coatings : • pyrolytic: on the manufacturing line (float) (‘‘hard coating’’) • Vaccum coating: in a magnetron (‘‘soft coatings’’) • Aims : • Solar control • Thermal insulation • Reflection limitation • ...
Processed products – Pyrolitic coated glass 1 2 2 • To the Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) (2) • Improved lateral uniformity • Higher reaction yields • Less cooling of the glass surface è Multilayer coatings • From the ‘spray’ process (1) • Projection of microdroplets
Buffer Buffer Unload Washer Load Coat zones Inspection Processed products - Magnetroncoated glass • ‘‘Off-line’’ production process • Vaccum sputtering
Magnets Cathode (-) + + Gas ions (+) + + + Anode + + Gas Coating Glass Processed products - Magnetroncoated glass
BU Magnetron - 4 units
Pyrolytic Magnetron Coating resistence high low Use in SG yes sometimes Use in DG yes yes Treatments possibilities toughening curving laminating In some cases, toughening, curving and laminating Processed products - Coated glass
Processed products • Coated glass • Mirrors • Glass with treated surfaces • Laminated glass • Tempered glass (toughened and HS) • Chemically toughened glass • Curved glass • Double glazing • Miscellaneous
Silvering Drying Polishing Sensitising & Activation Passivation Washing Drying Paint curing Metallic curing Paint layer Cooling