Batch plant products
Cullet for Glass Industries
Glass Service produces several batch plants for the glass industries for various kinds of glass and different production:
Table ware
Container
Perfumery
Pharma neutral borosilicate
Lead and barium crystal
Tailor-made solution
Raw Material Source
For each batch plant Glass Service designs a tailor-made solution according to customer’s request and local raw material availability. The raw material source can be selected by the customer and can be received by the plant by many different methods of transport or packaging:
- bags with manual loading
- big-bag 1000-1500 kg
- pneumatic transport
- bulk
The raw material storage can be done using several methods, mainly in silos or in bulk in storage bays. For each raw material source packaging Glass Service develops a simple discharging method, as an automatic bag opening and dust filtered machine, or a fully pneumatic transport management. The batch plants can manage the mixing of the main raw material as well as the refining agents or the decolouring agents. All dust source is detected and controlled by a dedicated dust filter. The batch plant dust powder pollution is reduced to a minimum possible thanks to the dust removal solution.
Cullet Recycling
Glass Service developed several cullet recycling plants. The cullet could be treated starting directly from the quality testing machine as well as the external cullet.
- cullet belt transportation
- cullet bucket elevator
- cullet crasher
- cullet silos
- cullet dosing and weighing system
The cullet dosing device could be done directly by a dosing scale and relative cone or by on line system, as dosing belt or gravity metric weighting device. Cullet device is suitable for use by an anti-wearing protection.
Control System
The batch plant control system manages all the batching phase from the raw material input to the batch furnace silos. The control system includes in one control board all the functions for Control and equipment drivers (electrical motors; vibrators, etc.) in the plant.
Based on a PLC unit the system integrates all control and power drive functions:
- Load raw material manage
- Recipe manage with historical recording and historical analysis
- Graphic view on the full plant
- Alarm manage
The human interface can be done by local touch screen panel for semiautomatic plant or by PC/SCADA for full automatic plant. The control board integrates a manual management for each equipment required for emergency operation in case of PLC fault. The installation of local button lamp panel helps the operator in the plant management.
