%0 Journal Article %T Energy and Material Flow Evaluation with CO2 Emissions in the Glass Production Process %A Gregor Berger %A Zlatko Raonic %A Daniel Forthuber %A Harald Raupenstrauch %A Robert Hermann %J Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry %P 82-105 %@ 2162-5328 %D 2022 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ampc.2022.125007 %X Glass manufacturing is an energy-intensive process with high demands on product quality. The wide usage of glass products results in a high end-product diversity. In the past, many models have been developed to optimize specific process steps, such as glass melting or glass forming. This approach presents a tool for the modeling of the entire glass manufacturing process for container glass, flat glass, and glass fibers. The tool considers detailed bottom-up energy and material balance in each step of the processing route with the corresponding costs and CO₂ emissions. Subsequently, it provides the possibility to quantify optimization scenarios in the entire glass manufacturing process in terms of energy, material and cost flow efficiency. %K Energy Efficiency %K Glass Industry %K Energy Balance %K Container Glass %K Flat Glass %K Glass Fiber %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=117576