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Eurotherm Energy Solutions for the Glass Industry

Eurotherm are a principle supplier of control systems for energy applications in the glass industry and have a global reputation for innovative fossil fuel and electrical energy delivery solutions.

 

Our extensive range of thyristor products and fuel control devices is supported by control algorithms and energy software solutions, which bring benefits across the whole business for the efficient use and management of energy.

 

Thyristor products

Robust design for hot and cold end applications.

Complete range of single, dual and three phase devices from 10 Amps to 10,000 Amps.

Suitable for firing into all type of heater materials including:

 

  • Standard resistive materials

  • Silicon Carbide

  • Molybdenum Di-Silicide

  • Graphite

  • Molybdenum and Tungsten Wire

  • Shortwave Infrared lamps and Quartz tubes

  • Transformer coupled loads including Scott wound and unbalanced transformers

 

Built for control system integration with features including:

 

  • Inbuilt alarms with supply and load protection.

  • Alarms for system and heater element diagnosis
  • Digital communications
  • Routines for power sharing, load shedding and load management 

 

 

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Please contact Eurotherm for more information on firing modes and the use of thyristors with specific heaters materials.

 

Fossil fuel control systems

An extensive range of control strategies and algorithms including:

 

  • Simple On-off and high low fuel control

  • Bounded and boundless fuel valve control algorithms

  • Simple fuel-air ratio systems

  • Special dual fuel-air with excess air trim ratio control systems

  • Specialist burner control algorithms

  • Single and multi zone pulse burner control systems

  • Lead-Lag fuel control systems

 

Energy management

A selection of energy and management features and capabilities:

 

  • Single and three phase electrical power, plant monitoring solutions

  • Management software systems for energy recording and reporting

  • Gas usage and fuel flow monitoring

  • Furnace energy optimisation routines

  • Batch process energy profiling

  • Electrical power maximum demand avoidance solutions

  • Furnace and batch process energy consumption recording

  • Bath and lehr electrical load sharing techniques

 

 

  Please contact Eurotherm for more information on the efficient use and management of energy.