Glass,Cement & Lime [ Return towards Our Solution for your Business ]

Glass, primary optical fiber, ceramic, cement and lime, whatever is your industry, your products pass by furnaces and enclosures at high temperature. You look for innovative solutions of combustion and heat treatment. You use numerous gaseous product

With a long list of customer references (Melting Glass with Oxygen), Air Liquide can provide the equipment and services you need to get the most out of this technology, including:

Oxy-gas or oxy-heavy fuel oil burners, optimized for maximum heat transfer to the molten glass.
A monitoring system for optimum control of combustion, power distribution and safety.
An application-specific oxygen supply system ensuring reliable supply while optimizing gas purity and pressure,
Various engineering and consultancy services for optimizing furnace design and reducing operating costs to a minimum
Technical assistance for on-site installation and commissioning, operator training and oxygen safety

The following main gases, supplied by Air Liquide, are used in your activity and your processes. Contact us for more information.

Oxygen: Mainly used for the glass melting and generally for all oxy-combustion processes.

Air: Used dry and compressed for forming and mechanical manufacturing of the glass as well as for maintenance.

Argon: Supplied to fill light bulbs and double glazing enclosures

Nitrogen: Supplied as an inert gas especialy to create, in combination with hydrogen, a reductive atmosphere over the tin bath in the float process.

Acetylene: Combustible gas used mainly in automatic lubrification for glass bottles

Helium: Mainly used as an inert or thermal packaging gas in the manufacturing of glass optic fibers.