I believe that the monograph that several of you are trying to recall is
the following:
Bohm, I. (1982) A Study of the Blast Furnace Process. Stockholm:
Jernkontorets Forsknung (Series, no. 22).
This is a reprint of a study done in the 1920's, when the Jernkontoret
maintained a charcoal blast furnace for teaching students. It is an
absolute classic - anyone at all interested in charcoal blast furnaces
should read it (though its in my office, and I can't recall immediately
whether it was hot or cold blast).
Ned Rehder is being remiss in not urging you to read his own article:
Rehder, E. (1987) The change from charcoal to coke in iron smelting.
Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 21:37-43, which is the best
ever summary treatment of the different properties of fuels in iron
smelting - again, a must-read for anyone interested in early blast
furnaces.
Dave
P.S. Incidentally, the Bohm study above includes an experiment in which
one run of the blast furnace was intentionally aborted by cutting off the
air supply and sealing the furnace up tight. The burden was then
stratigraphically excavated to demonstrate the process of reduction. many
years later Eric Tholander did very extensive metallographic studies of
these stored samples. See
Tholander, E. (1987) Experimental Studies on Early Iron Making. Stockholm:
Royal Institute of Technology, 279 pp.
(Parenthetically, all we Anglophones who are too lazy to learn other
languages owe the Scandanavians a vote of gratitude for doing most of
their scholarly publishing in English!)
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University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
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