Guys, does anyone know how much soda ash is required to produce one ton of glass?
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This post was last edited by wal5980729 on 2009-11-13 22:56. As the title indicates, it’s urgent to know the amount of soda ash used in glass production
It seems to be 0.2 tons of alkali, as I read in a book
Approximately 55% of the world’s soda ash production is used in the glass industry, where it serves as an essential and vital raw material for glass manufacturing. Soda ash, together with sand and limestone, can be melted at high temperatures to produce ordinary glass, such as bottle glass and flat glass. Soda ash, together with sand and lead oxide, can be melted at high temperatures to produce precious glass for optical instruments. Soda ash is used in glass production primarily as a solvent to lower the melting temperature; although it accounts for only 13% of the glass products, it makes up around 70% of the production costs. According to statistics, about 200 kilograms of soda ash are required to produce one ton of flat glass.