Global and China Photovoltaic Glass
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Melting process for container glass represents 75–85 % of total energy consumption and around 75 % of CO 2 emissions (Papadogeorgos and Schure, 2019). The average energy consumption of container glass furnaces was estimated in 5150 MJ/tglass (normalized to 50 % cullet and to the primary energy equivalent to oxygen production for oxy-fuel furnaces).
Among these industries, glassmaking presents specific energy consumption (SEC) of 4–17 GJ/t glass (Zier et al., 2021) with a global production of close to 130 million tons in 2020 (Furszyfer Del Rio et al., 2022), which represents one of the highest production volumes per capita worldwide.
The theoretical energy requirements for glass production are endothermic heat for glass reaction, sensible heat for glass heating, and sensible heat for intermittent gases (gases from the glass reaction) (Sardeshpande et al. 2007).
The best furnace reached 3700–3800 MJ/t glass, but batch pre-heating decreases energy consumption up to 3670 MJ/t glass and all-electric furnaces up to 3100–3200 MJ/t glass (Conradt, 2019). Glass recycling (cullet) saves energy and emissions, as the chemical decomposition of carbonates is already complete.
On the contrary, the electricity consumption (KPI 10) increases about ten times with respect to the conventional glass plant (216 kWh e /t glass). The electricity consumption increases up to 3026.38 kWh e /t glass, which implies an energy penalty (KPI 11) of 35.83 MJ e /kg CO2.
Historically, wood, coal, natural gas, and electricity have been used as energy sources in glass production (Griffin et al. 2021). Since the outbreak of the oil crisis in the last century, the need to reduce energy consumption per unit product has become one of the key factors in industrial furnace designs (Weber et al. 2020).

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