Iron Smelt - Wareham, ON - Nov 6, 2010

Date:Nov 6, 2010

Location:Wareham, ON

See also: Darrell Markewitz's ironsmelting site

Team: Neil Peterson, Richard Schwietzer, Darrell Markewitz, Katie Thornton (Records and Consolodation), Thomas Beckett (Consolodation)

Premise: Practice for CanIron8 presentation.

Furnace Design

Burn Details

Results

Reports of all of our iron smelting efforts along with more articles and information are available on the "Iron Smelting in the Viking Age" CD from the Wareham Forge.  Copies of the CD can be purchased here.

Discussion:

Conclusions:

Photos:

Building the smelter	Smelter	Finsihed Bloom

Raw Data:

CLOCK	ELAPSED	EVENT	AIR			CHARCOAL			ORE
						UNIT	COUNT	TOTAL	UNIT	COUNT	TOTAL
			gage	LpM	P	bucket		kg	scoop		kg
								1.45			0.615
9:30		start furnace construction
11:00	1:30	start wood split preheat
11:52	:52	add rough charcoal
12:10	:18	first graded charcoal				2	2	2.90
12:14		Start main sequence
12:24	:10	charcoal				1	3	4.35
12:30	:06	charcoal				1	4	5.80
12:39	0:09	charcoal				1	5	7.25
12:45	0:06	reaction column hot, first ore				1	6	8.70
12:46	:07	ore, charcoal				1	7	10.15	1	1	0.615
12:57	0:11	ore, charcoal				1	8	11.60	1	2	1.23
13:04	0:07	ore, charcoal				1	9	13.05	1	3	1.845
13:12	0:08	ore, charcoal				1	10	14.50	1	4	2.46
13:19	0:07	ore, charcoal				1	11	15.95	1	5	3.075
13:26	0:07	ore, charcoal				1	12	17.40	1	6	3.69
13:35	0:09	ore, charcoal				1	13	18.85	1	7	4.305
13:43	0:08	2 x ore (1.23 kg) , charcoal				1	14	20.30	2	9	5.535
13:52	0:09	2 x ore, charcoal				1	15	21.75	2	11	6.765
14:01	0:09	2 x ore, charcoal				1	16	23.20	2	13	7.995
14:09	0:08	3 X ore (1.845 kg), charcoal				1	17	24.65	3	16	9.84
14:17	0:08	3 X ore, charcoal				1	18	26.10	3	19	11.69
14:27	0:10	3 X ore, charcoal				1	19	27.55	3	22	13.53
14:35	0:08	3 X ore, charcoal				1	20	29.00	3	25	15.38
14:43	0:08	3 X ore, charcoal				1	21	30.45	3	28	17.22
14:52	0:09	4 x ore, charcoal				1	22	31.90	4	32	19.68
15:01	0:09	4 x ore, charcoal				1	23	33.35	4	36	22.14
15:11	0:10	4 x ore, charcoal				1	24	34.80	4	40	24.6
15:20	0:09	charcoal				1	25	36.25		40	24.6
15:26	0:06	charcoal				1	26	37.70		40	24.6
16:00 *	:34 *	extraction begins
	:30 *	extraction sequence
		TOTALS
		Time - (build to extraction)	5
		Tme - (smelt sequence)	4:15
		Charcoal	34 +
		Ore	24.6
		Bloom	8.5
		Yield %	34.5
		Recorded by Katie Thorton

Reports of all of our iron smelting efforts along with more articles and information are available on the "Iron Smelting in the Viking Age" CD from the Wareham Forge.  Copies of the CD can be purchased here.

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