Improve furnace performance

Higher efficiency. Greater stability. Better control.

What Drives Furnace Performance

Improving furnace performance requires more than isolated adjustments; it demands a deep understanding of how combustion, melting, heat transfer, and operation interact. We help stabilize furnace operation, reduce energy losses, and unlock potential improvements by analyzing furnace behavior, validating improvement strategies before implementation, and supporting changes directly at the plant. From day-to-day troubleshooting to structural optimization, our approach ensures performance gains that are sustainable, measurable, and aligned with your production goals.

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Deliverables

  • Optimizing combustion efficiency.
  • Reducing specific energy consumption.
  • Improving heat recovery, and minimizing heat losses.
  • Increasing pull rates while maintaining controlled feeding patterns.
  • Reducing defects, stabilizing color, and improving homogeneity.
  • Managing refractory wear, temperature distribution, and electrode performance.
  • Ensuring consistent operating conditions across production changes.
  • Lowering emissions, and overall environmental impact.

Addressing these areas requires more than adjustments; it demands reliable data, validated tools, and a structured approach to intervention.

CelSian Software Tools to Improve Furnace Performance

GTM-X

Advanced CFD Software to evaluate scenarios to optimize your process and product quality. We offer time-transient simulations and unique models that predict product quality. GTM-X can be our leading tool in our optimization project for you, and is also available as licensed software.

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Energy Balance Model (EBM)

Fast model to calculate energy usage with alternative process settings. Offered as licensed software or a ready-made executable file for your specific process.

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Energy benchmark

Analyze your energy consumption and CO2 emissions of your glass furnace(s), and compare, anonymously, with similar glass furnaces throughout the world. Our benchmark contains energy data of more than 500 glass furnaces around the world.

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CelSian Toolset to Improve Furnace Performance

CO⁺ sensor

A laser-based sensor that replaces typical O2 readings in the glass furnaces, to optimize combustion settings for higher energy efficiency and lower emission levels.

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Furnace support

On-site and remote operational support from experienced furnace specialists anywhere in the world, backed by robust data analytics and academic rigor, enables us to thrive at solving complex challenges for the industry.

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Furnaces We Worked On

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Whether you are looking for a focused diagnostic or a full optimization program, we’ll help you identify the actions that matter most.