charcoal furnaces

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Any info on the types of charcoal used in bloomery and blast furnaces in Europe is of interest eg species of wood, calorific value, whether bark was removed eg  oak bark for tanning or fir to reduce P uptake, why was sweet chestnut avoided in BF – crushing strength?

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Percy has a good deal about all of these questions:

https://books.google.dk/books?id=nhZKAAAAMAAJ

[Rchard Williams]

How’s your French?

1.  Hassenfratz, ‘La Siderotechnie , ou l’art de traiter les minerais de Fer pour en obtenir de la fonte ‘,

Vol 2, Chapter 1.

2.  Major work appearing in various guises, L’Art du Charbonnier, by Duhamel de Monceau, best perhaps in the encyclopaedia

‘Descriptions des arts et métiers’

Richard Williams

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