PROGRAM

15th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FURNACE DESIGN – Operation & Process Simulation ______

TUESDAY | MAY 21

12:00 – 21:00 SEMINAR REGISTRATION (Hotel Horal – Lobby)

13:00 – 16:00 10th GFM USERS' MEETING (for users of GS GFM Software, based on invitation)

Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

16:30 – 18:00 MEETING OF TC15/21 | FURNACE DESIGN & OPERATION

Program Coordinator: Aaron Huber Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

19:00 – 23:00 MEET & GREET PARTY (Hotel Horal) Small Refreshment Served

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15th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FURNACE DESIGN – Operation & Process Simulation ______

WEDNESDAY | MAY 22

06:30 – 08:30 SEMINAR GOLF TOURNAMENT 2019 (Hotel Horal)

08:30 – 14:00 SEMINAR REGISTRATION (Hotel Horal – Lobby)

09:15 – 09:30 WELCOME SPEECH

Program Coordinator: Erik Muijsenberg Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

09:30– 12:45 TECHNICAL SESSION 1 | BATCH MELTING PROCESSES & FURNACE MODELING

Chairmen: Petr Schill, Rajiv Tiwary Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

09:30 – 10:00 OPENING LECTURE Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Glass Fiber Manufacturing: Recent Developments and Challenges Bruno Purnode, Pat Prescott, Jong Han, Josh Rowe ( Science & Technology Center)

10:00 – 10:40 KEYNOTE LECTURE Process and Product Innovation Through Modeling & Simulation Manoj Choudhary (The Ohio State University / Glass Service, a. s.)

10:40 – 11:05 Impact of Technology Options on CO2 Emissions Aaron Huber ()

11:05 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 11:55 Discrete Element Based Approach to Batch Modeling Miroslav Trochta, Jiří Brada (Glass Service, a. s.)

11:55 – 12:20 Modeling the Batch-to-Glass Conversion Richard Pokorný, Jaroslav Kloužek (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague) Pavel Hrma, Seungmin Lee, Michael J. Schweiger (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Alexander Abboud, Donna P. Guillen (Idaho National Laboratory) Albert A. Kruger (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of River Protection)

12:20 – 12:45 Batch, Glass-Melt, Melt Flow and Their Relationship Marcela Jebavá, Lubomír Němec (Laboratory of Inorganic Materials, joint workplace of the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague and the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the ASCR, Prague) Pavel Budík (Glass Service, a. s.)

12:45 – 13:00 GROUP PHOTO 2019 (Hotel Horal – Terrace)

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH (Hotel Horal – Restaurant) ______2 MAY 22 – 23, 2019 HOTEL HORAL, VELKÉ KARLOVICE, CZECH REPUBLIC PROGRAM

15th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FURNACE DESIGN – Operation & Process Simulation ______

WEDNESDAY | MAY 22

14:30 – 17:25 TECHNICAL SESSION 2 | ELECTRIC MELTING & CO2 REDUCTION

Chairmen: Bruno Purnode, Aaron Huber Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

14:30 – 14:55 Design of an All Electric Cullet Remelter Narayana Rao Chalasani (Johns Manville)

14:55 – 15:20 Large Electric Furnaces & Superboosting – Is This the Future for CO2 Reduction? Stuart Hakes (FIC UK Limited) Christoph Jatzwauk (FIC Germany GmbH) Erik Muijsenberg (Glass Service, a. s.)

15:20 – 15:45 Evaluation of Where Highly Electrically Conductive Material Can Safely Be Located Inside Electric Melters Donn Sederstrom (Johns Manville)

15:45 – 16:10 COFFEE BREAK

16:10 – 16:35 Container Furnace Conversion to Reduce Power Consumption and CO2 Emissions Tomáš Krobot, Erik Muijsenberg (Glass Service, a. s.)

16:35 – 17:00 Benchmarking Furnaces – Economically and Ecologically Hans Mahrenholtz (Glass Service, a. s.)

17:00 – 17:25 Ecopure Catalytic Candle Filter – Cost Efficient Partial Flow Solution Matthias Hagen (Luft-und Thermotechnik Bayreuth GmbH, part of DÜRR group)

19:00 – 23:00 RECEPTION – Welcoming Ceremony (Hotel Horal) GS MODELING AWARD 2019

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15th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FURNACE DESIGN – Operation & Process Simulation ______

THURSDAY | MAY 23

09:30 – 12:25 TECHNICAL SESSION 3 | PROCESS OPTIMIZATION & INDUSTRY 4.0

Chairmen: Peter De Cuypere, Stuart Hakes Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

09:30 – 09:55 Coupled Numerical Modelling of Redox Reactions and Glass Melt Fining Processes Franck Pigeonneau (MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CEMEF)

09:55 – 10:20 Development of New Refractory Solutions for Glass Industry Through Numerical Simulation Pierrick Vespa (Saint–Gobain Research Provence)

10:20 – 10:45 Glass Technology Development by Artificial Intelligence? Harald Zimmermann (THD – Technologie Anwender Zentrum Spiegelau, Germany)

10:45 – 11:10 COFFEE BREAK

11:10 – 11:35 CFD and Advanced Control in the Industry 4.0 Jungle John Page (AGC Flat Glass North America)

11:35 – 12:00 Integrating Batch Features in Furnace Big Data Processing Bruno Symoens, Bernard Guillaume (AGC Glass Europe, Technovation Center)

12:00 – 12:25 Industry 4.0 with GS ES IIITM Application at Erik Muijsenberg, František Matuštík (Glass Service, a. s.) Gerold Sprachmann, Johannes Maier, Philipp Woldrich, Herwig Rutter (D. Swarovski KG)

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH (Hotel Horal – Restaurant)

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15th INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FURNACE DESIGN – Operation & Process Simulation ______

THURSDAY | MAY 23

14:30 – 15:45 TECHNICAL SESSION 4 | FORMING OPTIMIZATION

Chairmen: Wolfgang Muschick, Peter Vrabel Place: Hotel Horal – Conference Room

14:30 – 14:55 Application of k–ω Baseline Turbulence Model to Simulation of Molten Tin Flow Jiří Brada, Václav Heidler (Glass Service, a. s.) Petr Sváček (Czech Technical University, Prague)

14:55 – 15:20 Application of the Lattice Boltzmann Method in the Float Glass Process Simulation Václav Heidler (Glass Service, a. s.)

15:20 – 15:45 Digitalization in Glass Optics Manufacturing Anh Tuan Vu, Anh Ngoc Vu, Tim Grunwald, Thomas Bergs (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology – Fraunhofer IPT)

19:00 – 24:00 FAREWELL PARTY with Live Music & Dancing (Hotel Horal)

WITH SINCERE THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

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