AFTER LIFE Communication Plan

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1 LIFE + Environment Policy and Governance Climate Change AFTER LIFE Communication Plan LIFE07 ENV/F/ HotOxyGlass Validation of environment friendly flat glass production using an innovative hot oxygen combustion technique Page 1 of 6

2 PROJECT RESULTS Glass industry is facing new challenges : reducing pollutants and green house gases emissions (CO2, NOx, SOx ) while remaining competitive with a production tool based on an traditional but proven technology. Incremental innovations have obviously been implemented industrially to decrease impact on the environment. One of the most promising techniques, known now for more than 20 years, is oxycombustion that can allow reducing impact footprint down to 50%. Air/fumes recuperator Description Hotoxyglass project aimed at going one step forward these figures by demonstrating industrially the potential offered by oxygen and natural gas preheating in a full-oxy Float furnace. Pictures below gives a global overview of the different technological bricks: Air/fumes Recuperator, Air/O2 exchanger Air/NG exchanger ALGLASS SUN Burner Air/O2 exchanger ALGLASS SUN Burner For more information about oxy-combustion : Page 2 of 6

3 Results After a two years campaign, the heat recovery equipments (air/fumes recuperator, air/o2 exchanger, Air/fuel exchanger, burner) have proven their efficiency. The concept has been validated and specific safety analysis (common approach with new technologies) has been translated into internal procedures assuring an adequate usage of the technology. The reactants temperature are today: O2 Preheating 540 C ± 10 GN Preheating 440 C ± 10 The following parameters of the equipment have been tracked: Maintenance: Very low level of maintenance has been observed. Safety: No specific difficulties. The safety analysis performed during the engineering phase has allowed controlling perfectly all the transient without any difficulty. Control system: The control system of the equipments is integrated inside the furnace control system. No incompatibilities were faced from the beginning. AGC Glass Europe team during furnace operations From the start-up to today s configuration, ALGLASS SUN burner has demonstrated the following characteristics: Good functioning with natural gas and fuel oil Perfect flexibility with air or steam as atomizing gas Power range from 1 to 6 MW Stable flames whatever oxygen and natural gas temperatures High reliability of fuel tips Environmental results Beyond technical performance, HotOxyGlass is a environmental friendly project targeting at reducing footprint of glass production factories. Air Liquide Team during furnace operations No modification of furnace operation control vs cold reactants regarding: Batch and foam behavior Crown temperatures Glass quality Furnace refractories Environmental target Energy consumption CO 2 emissions NO X emissions SO X emissions Targets of reduction compared to air-fired furnace & level of achievements - 25% / Achieved - 15% / Achieved - 83 % / Exceeded - 35 % / Exceeded This CO2 reduction corresponds to about T/year. Page 3 of 6

4 Extra-Results Hotoxyglass project has also allowed getting results about: 1) Impact of hot reactants combustion on furnace thanks to numerical simulations, 2) Increase know-how on hot oxygen materials compatibility 3) Furnace structure with oxygen combustion PROJECT COMMUNICATION The use of oxygen and natural gas technology has been demonstrated for Float glass furnaces but can be implemented in any glass factory generating fumes and targeting at reducing its environmental footprint. As most of primary (steel, iron, cement, paper ) industries are very conservative, the best vector of dissemination still remains the glass industry. The second targeted communities are R&D units and preferably universities working on combustion in Europe. The elaborated communication plan has successively consisted in: Informing about project objectives by describing the content of the project as well as its advantages in terms environmental impact in order to convince glass industry, Informing about project results to glassmakers stakeholders and starting the extension to similar industries and promoting with special effort on getting a second reference. Inform about Hotoxyglass objectives Website: The initial objectives of the project have been first disclosed in the website for a wider dissemination. The ambitious targets of energy savings, Nox reduction, CO2 emission abatement were published. Events GMIC Workshop «Energy Efficiency», Oct. 2009, Colombus (USA) 21st Seminar of the Belgian Section of the Combustion Institute, May 2010, Liège (Belgium) Ecole de combustion, May 2010, Porticcio Glassman South America, March 2010, Sao Paulo (Brazil) The events have been accurately chosen in order (1) to check research glass community acceptance about this new technology (2) to evaluate the glass industrial sector motivation for such technology (3) to share with combustion researchers this new concept (4) to start spread the technology out of the glass market. In Glass International, Michael Greenman, Executive director of GMIC, noticed Youssef Joumani from Air Liquide was the first of several speakers to address heat recovery in detail, demonstrating the growing importance this approach will have in future furnace designs (Glass International Dec. 2009). Glassman is one of the most famous fair about glass. During this exhibition, the concept has been explained by using a dedicated poster. Page 4 of 6

5 Flyers Flyers have been designed for diffusion. The flyer can be downloaded from the website. Results about Float furnaces can be extrapolated to any glass type. Homepage, that provides the project context, Events for downloading presentation and papers about Hotoxyglass Status for knowing the project results Partners, for understanding AGC Glass Europe and Air Liquide activities Technology page describing the concept of the heat recovery from flue gases Internal dissemination AGC Glass Europe and Air Liquide have used their internal promotion network as well: AL R&D monthly newsletter (Exporing Feb. 2010) and Business unit short news. Most Air Liquide is aware of the technology and can inform their customer and partners about the existence of a new solution. First results were disclosed during the following events: ESG Meeting / TNO Glass Trend meeting, June. 2010, Magdeburg (Germany): Major meeting for European Community of Glass. About 100 people attended this presentation. Journées du Groupement Français de Combustion, Oct. 2010, Paris AGC Glass Europe through internal visiting (Management, stakeholders). GMIC Workshop «Waste heat management», Oct. 2010, Colombus (USA) Inform about Hotoxyglass results This phase was very active in order to provide glass community with first consolidated results. Following events have been attended and corresponding support have been produced. Several papers have been published in the three main magazines on industrial glass: Paper in Glass International August/July 2010: One of the three main journal delivering information about innovation for glass industry Glass Worldwide, Nov (check here opinion about this journal VERRE, Dec The project has also been mentioned in two papers (Glass International Dec & Glass Worldwide Jan 2011). Page 5 of 6

6 During Phase #2, Air Liquide and AGC Glass Europe have also contacted: Their main customers to convince them about this new green technology, MEETINGS WITH STAKEHOLDERS DATE LOCATION TARGET ATTENDANCE European Glassmaker March 2010 Asian glassmaker March 2010 Engineering company June 2010 French glassmaker December 2009 Japanese glassmakers December 2010 Tokyo (Japan) Promote heat recovery as a green solution for the next furnace Make promotion of heat recovery to a worldwide glassmaker Engineering company interested in including future green solutions to next furnaces Promotion of green solution and LIFE+ program in French glass community Worlwide glassmaker interested in heat recovery for a factory in Europe Mostly technical people Technical people Technical people and management Management people Decision making people Their internal stakeholders to make internal promotion. Governmental agencies have been also invited (ADEME, FEDER, European Comission) to visit the furnace Glass international paper will be translated in Chinese language in order and will be diffused during China Glass by the organizers. The oxy-combustion brochure of Air Liquide will be updated to include HotOxyGlass project results. The brochure will be distributed to Air Liquide entities as well as to its customers. The website will be updated regularly with papers, presentation and other possible events such as exhibition. Contact Additional Dissemination Activities Air Liquide and AGC Glass Europe both aims at disseminating this technology for making a greener glass. Luc Jarry Glass Market Manager +33 (0) Mail: luc.jarry@airliquide.com In 2011, following events are scheduled Glass service conference, June 21 st, where most of scientific community and glass sectors will be present GMIC Meeting in Colombus in order to reveal final results about the technology, China Glass Exhibition where Oxy-float furnace will be promoted by Air Liquide at worldwide level obviously mentioning support of European comission Benoit Ligot Corporate communication Supervisor +31 (0) Mail: benoit.ligot@eu.agc.com Visit: More globally, all combustion events about combustion that Air Liquide attend, will mention HotOxyGlass results. Papers An internal publication is scheduled in Air Liquide Newsletter in 2011 (Exploring) in order to give finale status about this development at a worldwide scale. Page 6 of 6