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AUTOMATION AND CONTROL
Automation and control
GLASS SERVICE

automated monitoring

of furnace and tin bath using

near-infrared

sensitive chip

technology

Erik Muijsenberg & Robert Bodi
GLASS SERVICE, A.S.
Figure 1 – The GS A-SENS NIR
Camera and Water-Cooled
In its continuous Jacket Assembly

development on its product

line dedicated to furnace and tin bath control, Glass Service presents

not only a new camera which has 5.0 million pixels, but also a joint-

venture set up to actually develop these products.

lass Service, a.s. (GS), A-SENS CAMERAS – of the melter to improve the fur-
has added proprietary FURNACE STABILITY AND nace stability and glass quality.
Ghardware to its product GLASS QUALITY Further steps may include the
line to automatize furnace and The A-SENS cameras give control of the batch charging and
tin bath control. To develop high high level functionality when the combustion process.
resolution multi functional cam- combined with GS proprietary The A-SENS High Definition
eras, GS started up a joint-ven- Image Browser Software and Visual and Near Infrared (NIR)
ture company named A-SENS in connecting it to its Expert System camera has 5.0 million pixels, or
Zagreb Croatia, which has result- ESIII™ toolbox. This also allows 5 million virtual thermocouples.
ed in unique very high resolution to monitor the batch cover- Figure 1 shows the installation
CMOS chips that can bring us age within a melter automatic. of the furnace camera and the
visual, as well as thermal, infor- ESIII™ will correlate this digital surrounding water-cooled jacket
mation. image of the batch to the control that protects the camera from

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