U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Industrial Technologies Program – Glass Industry of the Future

Active R&D Projects

The glass R&D portfolio is currently focused on one area: next generation melting systems. The current active project is listed below, along with contact information for the principal investigator.

Project factsheets, summaries, and recent presentations for each project are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Next Generation Melting Systems

The goal of this focus area is to dramatically reduce melting energy intensive through new technology.

• Energy-Efficient Glass Melting: Submerged Combustion Melting and Rapid Conditioning (Factsheet (PDF 1.2 MB), Summary (PDF 150 KB), Presentation (PDF 150 KB))
  Contact: David Rue, Gas Technology Institute; (847) 768-0508