Abstract:
A glass article is composed of an aluminosilicate glass with at least one halogen with refining action in an amount ranging from 500 ppm to 8000 ppm and an Sn content of less than 500 ppm. The glass has less than 100 ppm As and less than 100 ppm Sb and the glass article has a thickness of less than 250 μm.
Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to a process for producing glass products and to an apparatus suitable for the purpose. In the process, a melting apparatus is provided with a melting tank for producing a glass melt from glass raw materials and a top furnace. Part of the surface of the melting region of the melting apparatus is covered with the glass raw materials and at least a small portion of the surface of the melting region is uncovered. In addition, energy is introduced in such a way that a vertical temperature difference can be established, such that the temperature of the glass melt at the base is greater than the temperature of the atmosphere in the top furnace.
Abstract:
A method for producing bubble-free glasses is provided, in which a glass mixture that is arsenic-free, antimony-free and tin-free with the exception of any unavoidable raw material impurities and at least one sulfate compound as a refining agent are used. The glass mixture and refining agent are melted and primarily refined in a first region of a melting tank, an average melting temperature (T1) is set at T1>1580° C. and an average melt residence time (t1) is set at t1>2 hours. A secondary refinement is carried out in a second region, an average melting temperature (T2) is set at T2>1660° C. and an average melt residence time (t2) is set at t2>1 hour, and the proportion of the SO3 resulting from decomposition of the sulfate is reduced to less than 0.002 wt. %.
Abstract:
Methods for producing glass articles from glass melts are provided that include continuously introducing the glass melt into a stirrer vessel, stirring the glass melt in the stirrer vessel by at least one blade stirrer, continuously discharging the glass melt from the stirrer vessel, and shaping the glass melt to obtain the glass article. In some embodiments, the stirring is sufficient to draw the glass melt located at a surface of the stirrer vessel into the stirrer vessel so that a formation of a surface layer of the glass melt with a different composition from the composition of the glass melt introduced is prevented or at least minimized. In other embodiments, the stirring is sufficient so that the glass melt which is located at a surface in the stirrer vessel is not drawn into the stirrer vessel or is drawn in only insubstantially.