Gas combustion systems boasts advanced safety design
Forglass is known to many European glass producers for the design and build of glass furnaces and batch plants.
Less widely known is that it is also a multi-faceted engineering enterprise, including the design, construction and delivery of much of the auxiliary equipment for glassworks, such as conveyors, crushers and gas combustion systems.
Among the company’s areas of expertise is the design and delivery of demanding combustion systems that meet and exceed the most rigorous safety standards.
The Forglass melting end main gas station, for example, is fully compliant with European Standard EN 746-2, for industrial thermo-processing equipment and all safety requirements for combustion and fuel handling systems.
Equipped with control devices independent of the furnace control system, it is also designed with several redundancies, including such features as: Filtering, reducing and stabilising gas pressure, measuring gas flow; regulating gas flow; and cutting off the gas flow in case of an emergency
The equipment’s autonomous control systems are based on the safety PLC controllers (independent for each of the two lines), which are connected to transmitters and sensors of the furnace (pressure, temperature, air flow) and used solely for the purpose of ensuring safety, ie immediately shutting off the gas supply in an emergency. The two redundant lines are fully independent, not sharing any measuring or executing devices.