Objetivo THE OBJECTIVES ARE : A) TO DEVELOP A COMPUTER CODE FOR THE SIMULATION AND DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL GLASS KILN AND TO APPLY IT FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN OF GLASS MELTING KILNS. B) TO CONDUCT A PROGRAMME OF EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE FLOW AND HEAT-TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS IN THE GLASS MELTING KILN. TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE, COORDINATE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THREE COUNTRIES (PORTUGAL, GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM) AND THE RESULTS WILL BE USED TO GUIDE A FINAL EXPERIMENT PROGRAMME IN ONE OF THE FURNACES OF THE PORTUGUESE COMPANY, METAL. THE BASIS FOR THE NUMERICAL DESIGN PROCEDURE WILL BE PERFORMED IN LISBON AND FURTHER DEVELOPED IN THE THREE COUNTRIES. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CALCULATION METHOD IS INNOVATED IN THAT NOVEL NUMERICAL PROCEDURES WILL BE REQUIRED TO DEAL WITH THE OXYGEN-RICH ATMOSPHERE AND WITH THE SUBSTANTIAL RADIATION. THESE DEVELOPMENTS WILL BE GUIDED BY EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED IN THE THREE CONFIGURATIONS, NAMELY A LOW TEMPERATURE SIMULATION OF A GLASS FURNACE, A COMBUSTING AXISYMMETRICAL FURNACE AND IN A FULL SCALE GLASS FURNACE. THIS OVERALL APPROACH IS TOTALLY NEW TO THE GLASS-FURNACE INDUSTRY. THE RD WORK IS DIVIDED IN TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS : - COMPUTER CODE DEVELOPMENT - COLD FLOW TESTING - BURNER TESTING - KILN TESTING - COMPARISON OF CALCULATED AND MEASURED RESULTS - PROVISIONS OF NEW DESIGNS AND DESIGN METHOD. Ámbito científico engineering and technologymaterials engineering Programa(s) FP1-ENNONUC 3C - Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of Non-Nuclear Energy, 1985-1988 Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinador IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección South Kensington Campus LONDON Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Instituto Superior Tecnico Portugal Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Lisboa Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos LABORATORIA NACIONAL ENGENHARIA E TECHNOLOGIA INDUSTRIAL (LNETI) Portugal Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección LISBOA Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos METAL PORTUGUESA SA Portugal Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección LISBOA Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección NÜRNBERG Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos