Hopewell Furnace Natl Historic Site in Pennsylvania does at least one charcoal
burn a year. I am pretty sure they have data on yield. You might want to check
with them. Their web site is:
http://www.nps.gov/hofu/newweb/home.html
Other sources to look at would include:
Schallenberg, R H
1977 Raw Materials Supply and Technological Change in the American
Charcoal Iron Industry. In Technology and Culture. July 1977, pp 436-466.
Birkenbine, John
1879 The Production of Charcoal for Iron Works. In Transactions of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. VII, May 1878 to February 1879, pp.
149-158. American Institute of Mining Engineers, Easton, PA.
1883 Charcoal as a Fuel. In Transactions of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, Vol. XI, May 1882-Feb 1883, pp. 78-88.
1889 Experiments-Charcoal, Coal, Coke, Pine Grove. In Transactions of
the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. XIII, May 1879-Feb1880, pp.
168-177.
Kemper, Jackson III
1940 American Charcoal Making In the Era of the Cold-blast Furnace. In
The Regional Review, Vol. V, No. 1, July 1940, pp. 3-14. National Park Service,
Region One, Richmond, VA.
Gordon, Robert B.
1996 American Iron 1607-1900. The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Baltimore and London. pp36-38.
Mulholland, James A.
1981 A History of Metals in Colonial America. University, The
University of Alabama Press. p. 33.
Bining, Arthur Cecil
1938 Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century. In
Publications of Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Vol. IV. Pennsylvania
Historical Commission, Harrisburg. p.63.
I have most of these and can dig them out if you are interested.
JH Brothers IV
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