| EVENT | Date | June (20) 2021 | |||||||
| Description | Hals Icelandic Phase 3 A | ||||||||
| Goal | simulated Icelandic clay mix | ||||||||
| Team | Darrell Markewitz (M) | ||||||||
| Neil Peterson | |||||||||
| Rey Cogswell | |||||||||
| Kay Burnham | |||||||||
| Richard Schwitzer | |||||||||
| records | Kelly Probyn-Smith | ||||||||
| photos | Travis Sweet | ||||||||
| FURNACE | Type | Icelandic turf build | |||||||
| Material | Wareham sod / Icelandic clay | ||||||||
| Walls | cylinder / clay+sand+horse | 4.5 | |||||||
| Interior | 28 | ||||||||
| Height | 75 | ||||||||
| Stack | 50 | ||||||||
| Base | 15 | ||||||||
| Packing | charcoal fines | 14 | |||||||
| Tuyere | standard copper | ||||||||
| Diameter | 2 | ||||||||
| Angle | -22.5 | ||||||||
| Proud | 5 | ||||||||
| Air System | standard electric blower | ||||||||
| Extraction | bottom via arch | ||||||||
| MATERIALS | Ore | DD 1 (red) | 51% Fe | ||||||
| Charcoal | Oak | ||||||||
| CLOCK | ELAPSED | EVENT | AIR | CHARCOAL | ORE | ||||
| UNIT | COUNT | TOTAL | Unit | TOTAL | |||||
| pressure | LpM | bucket | kg | kg | kg | ||||
| psi | 1.8 | ||||||||
| 1200 | start wood splints pre-heat | touch | |||||||
| 1300 | T 60 | fill with rough charcoal | 700 | 3 | 3 | 5.40 | |||
| 1314 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 7.20 | |||||
| 1329 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9.00 | |||||
| 1338 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 10.80 | |||||
| 1352 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 12.60 | |||||
| 1400 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 14.40 | |||||
| 1407 | T 1:07 | start graded charcoal | |||||||
| 1200 | main sequence start | ||||||||
| 1205 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 16.20 | |||||
| 1217 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 18.00 | |||||
| 1228 | 11 | start addition of iron slag | 1 | 11 | 19.80 | ||||
| 1245 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 21.60 | 1 S | 1 S | |||
| 1257 | 12 | last 2/3 as slug | 1 | 13 | 23.40 | 1 S | 2 S | ||
| 1310 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 25.20 | 1 S | 3 S | |||
| 1322 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 27.00 | 1 S | 4 S | |||
| 1335 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 28.80 | 1 S | 4 S | |||
| 1350 | 15 | ore addition | 1 | 17 | 30.60 | 1 O | 1 O | ||
| 1405 | 15 | slag tap | 1 | 29 | 52.20 | 1 | 2 | ||
| charcoal fines removed - lower bowl | |||||||||
| 17 E | record missed | 1 | 30 | 54.00 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 1440 | 17 E | 1 | 31 | 55.80 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 1455 | 15 | 1 | 22 | 39.60 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 1507 | 12 | 1 | 23 | 41.40 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 1526 | 19 | 1 | 24 | 43.20 | 1 | 7 | |||
| air increase | 800 | ||||||||
| 1545 | 19 | 1 | 25 | 45.00 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 1600 | 15 | 1 | 26 | 46.80 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 1613 | 13 | 1 | 27 | 48.60 | 1 | 10 | |||
| 1628 | 15 | remainder slag | 1 | 28 | 50.40 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 1644 | 16 | 1 | 29 | 52.20 | 1.5 | 12.5 | |||
| 1700 | 16 | 1 | 30 | 54.00 | 1.5 | 14 | |||
| 1715 | 15 | 1 | 31 | 55.80 | 1.5 | 15.5 | |||
| 1733 | 18 | 1 | 32 | 57.60 | 2 | 17.5 | |||
| slag tap | |||||||||
| 17 E | record missed | 1 | 33 | 59.40 | 1.5 | 19 | |||
| 1807 | 17 E | slag tap | 1 | 34 | 61.20 | 2 | 21 | ||
| 1817 | 10 | 1 | 35 | 63.00 | 1.5 | 22.5 | |||
| 14 E | record missed | 1 | 36 | 64.80 | 1.5 | 24 | |||
| 1845 | 14 E | slag tap | 1 | 37 | 66.60 | 1.5 | 25.5 | ||
| 1858 | 13 | start burn down | 1 | 38 | 68.40 | ||||
| 1930 | extra to cover, at about one remains | 0.5 | 38.5 | 69.30 | |||||
| start extraction | |||||||||
| TOTALS | |||||||||
| Charcoal | 69 | kg | |||||||
| Ore | 25.5 | kg | |||||||
| iron slag added | 4 | kg | |||||||
| Bloom | 8.9 | kg | |||||||
| Gromps | |||||||||
| Yield | 35 | % | |||||||
| Condition | varies, dense to fragmented | ||||||||
| Quality | |||||||||
| Slag | tap slag collected | 7.9 | kg | ||||||
| bowl during extraction | 2.5 | kg | |||||||
| bowl from re-set | 3 | kg | |||||||
| TOTAL | 13.4 | kg | |||||||
| INPUT | 29.5 | kg | |||||||
| OUTPUT | 22.3 | kg | |||||||
| BALANCE | -7.2 | kg | |||||||