Glass (VERALLIA)
Verallia Group is a leader company in the glass packaging sector. with a global presence in 11 countries and 10.000+ employees.
The company involves 32 factories of glass production, 3 factories for glass discoloration and 8 centres for the glass scrap recycling.
The global annual production is estimated around 16 billion of glass bottles.
Verallia Italy, which is the company formally partner in TRINEFLEX, is one of the main regional branches including 6 production sites and 2.400+ employees.
Demo Case objectives
- Reducing energy amount required, through digital-twinning of the process and optimization simulations.
- Increasing heat recovery and energy efficiency
- Implementing electricity source instead of natural gas combustion
ACTIVITIES
TRINEFLEX approach will be applied to FEEDERS & PACKAGING SHRINKING EQUIPMENT.
The FEEDERS are enclosed channels, in which the molten glass flows from the furnace to the glass forming equipment. Here occurs the “glass conditioning” process, involving the control of the glass flow properties (temperature, homogeneity), which might require heating or cooling the glass.
The foreseen activities are:
Optimization of the conditioning process in order to reduce the amount of energy required, through digital-twinning of the process and optimization simulations.
The energy recovered could be used to improve the energy efficiency of the process itself or routed elsewhere.
Simulation and test verification of partial/total heating contribution from electricity source instead of natural gas combustion.
The PACKAGING SHRINKING EQUIPMENTS are the machines used to finalize the automatic packaging of bottles/jars pallets. Polyethylene films are applied on the loaded pallets and heat is provided to “shrink” the film.
The foreseen activities:
Optimization of the shrinking process in order to reduce the amount of energy required, through digital-twinning of the process and optimization simulations.
Simulation and test verification of partial/total heating contribution from electricity source instead of natural gas combustion.
