What is Clear Float Tempered/Toughened Glass?

Clear float glass, it is molten glass floats on the tin and spreads out thus seeking a controlled level. Control heating will then allows the glass to flow and form a float ribbon of uniform thickness while on the tin bath. Glass is then slowly cooled and fed off from the molten tin into the annealing lehr for further cooling.

Clear float tempered/toughened glass is float glass that has been processed through a tempering oven to increase its strength to resist impact, mechanical loads and thermal stress breakage.

Glass is heat-treated by heating annealed glass to a temperature of approximately 1,150°F (621°C), then rapidly cooling it. The glass is cooled by a carefully controlled airflow (also known as quenching), which uniformly cools all glass surfaces simultaneously.

It is approximately four times stronger than annealed glass of the same thickness and configuration. When it is broken, tempered glass fractures into small fragments that reduce the probability of serious injury as compared to annealed glass.

What is the Spectral Data of 3.2mm Clear Float Tempered/Toughened glass?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characteristics

It is smooth without any pattern on glass surface.

The energy transmittance about 88%

It is of less cost compare to low iron glass

It is a little green seen from edges. 

Where to use it?

·  Substrate of semiconductor of thin film photovoltaic technology, including cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium diselenide (CIS).

·  PVIB (photovoltaics in buildings) & BIPV (building-integrated photovoltaic)

  Substrate glass for thin film panels                           glass for building-integrated photovoltaic