Analysis of Scale-up of a Shaft Furnace by Process Engineering - From the Iron-manufacturing Experiment by Using Bei-tetsu in Hippo Tatara -

Abstract

“Iron technology and history forum” obtained the opportunity to participate in the 38th iron-manufacture experiment by using Bei-tetsu (lump iron ore with rice cake shape) conducted like in 1859 (Ansei era 6) by “the committee of restoring iron manufacture of “Hippo” (Village of Marumori-Town, Igu-County, Miyagi-Prefecture, Japan)” as early reconstruction assistance from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
This experimental result was analyzed by process engineering and discovered the bird’s eye view on the conversion from the Japanese-style indirect iron-making into the shaft furnace historically and technically.