Glass briquette and forming system
View Patent ↗A method of producing a glass briquette in which reclaimed glass fines are mixed with a binder material to create a mixture. The mixture is subsequently compressed in a chamber to form a briquette having the shape of the interior of the chamber. The reclaimed glass includes glass fines of a size of smaller than 10 mm. The method is performed without melting the glass fines such that the resulting briquette contains the discrete glass fines held in the binder and may be used as a furnace ingredient for later glass product production. The glass briquette may contain other batch ingredients required in the production of glass.
1 . A glass briquette, consisting of: a compressed mixture of reclaimed glass fines of a size of smaller than 10 mm and having 1-8% by weight of a binder material comprising a lignosulphate and/or sodium silicate, wherein the reclaimed glass comprises glass fines present as discrete, solid particulate material contained with the binder of the compressed mixture and the glass briquette is capable of withstanding a drop test from a height of 1 m.
2 . The glass briquette according to claim 1 , wherein the mixture of reclaimed glass comprises 4% by weight of the binder material.
3 . The glass briquette according to claim 1 , wherein the mixture of reclaimed glass comprises glass fines of a size of smaller than 2 mm.