Method for evaluating choice of materials for multilayer thermal insulation of glass melting furnaces

This paper presents a method based on a method of selecting thermal insulation inrelation to the minimum expenditure, taking into account he capital investment (cost of materials) and runing expenditure (heat loss) which is analogous to the method of determining the economically reasonable resistance to heat transfer in public and industrial buildings. The proposed method makes it possible to solve the problems of the thermal insulation for both actual glass-melting furnaces and also from the point of view of the development of the production of thermal-insulation materials in varius regions of the Soviet Union.