title: Economic comparison of emission control systems for glass manufacturing furnaces with heat recovery.
abstract: Glass manufacturing, like other process industries, is faced with air pollution compliance problems due to ever stricter emission limits. Several waste gas cleaning equipment options are available for air pollution control (APC) in glass plants, the most common arrangements being based on electrostatic precipitator (ESP) or fabric filter (FF) dust collectors and semi-wet or dry processes for acid gas removal. However, several counteracting aspects affect the choice of gas cleaning technologies, which are confirmed by the discrepancies encountered in actual suppliers' bids. In this paper, the main pollution control options are analyzed by carrying out a critical comparison under the cost-effectiveness point of view to select the lowest cost arrangement considering capital investment, operating expenses, and energy-saving revenues from heat recovery processes. The analysis is carried out with reference to a case study involving actual float glass production lines at Pilkington plants in Italy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Energetics, Faculty of Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Monteluco, L'Aquila, Italy.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Caputo
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pelagagge
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004738:Engineering; D005898:Glass; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007221:Industry; D008420:Manufactured Materials