ATS has been awarded of the contract of the new flue gas treatment system in Jaroslaw (Poland)

O-I is the worldwide leading manufacturer of container glass, operating in 21 countries with 75 plants and more than 21,000 employees, and has over a century in the production of clean, sustainable glass packaging and able to confer recognition the major brands of food and beverage. The production of O-I is focused on glass containers for beer, wine, distillery products, foods and drinks.

In Poland, in which it was present since 1993, it has 2 factories including Jaroslaw plant, that is still considered the worldwide biggest plant owned by O-I, and Antoniniek; for a total of 6 active furnaces, from which every day are shipped standard and customized bottles to the main players of the European "food & beverage" market. Some of these have also become testimonial of the campaign "Glass is Life" aimed to demonstrate the unique qualities of glass packaging and its ability to create successful brands in the food and beverage industry, showing the love consumers have for this type of material.

Aereal view of the O-I Manufacturing glasswork in Jaroslaw

Glass is a 100% natural material; the raw materials from which it is composed include sand and limestone. It can be used and recycled over and over again. But not for this reason its production is totally painless for the environment: the high melting temperatures of its components may in fact lead to the formation of dust and sulphur oxides (SOx), which besides being a greenhouse gas, are also one of the main causes of acid rain.

O-I, once again, proved to be a company that stands out for the strong environment respect, deciding to equip Jaroslaw glassworks of an efficient flue gas treatment plant. Such a system, among the first in Poland regarding container glass, involves lime injection inside a dry reactor upstream an electrostatic precipitator (ESP). The lime will react with the sulphur oxides present in the flue gases, transforming them into sulphite and sulphate that could be easily being collected by the ESP.

Picture of the building containing melting furnaces of O-I Manufacturing glassworks in Jaroslaw

ATS intervention will then be focused to the integration of such a system upstream the existing waste heat recovering system, ensuring, through appropriate modifications, that the plant, in its final configuration, has no impact on depression maintained nowadays, indeed ensures a better stability even during the phases of reversals typical of a melting furnace for glass and at the same time splitting the stream in two part inside the WHR boilers just before the stack.