Charcoal and Charcoal Burning by Dw Kelley
Charcoal, the smelting fuel of the Bronze Age, has been in continual use in Europe for over five thousand years and was essential to the early metalworkers. History records its manufacture and the use of its by-products but gives few details of the charcoal burners - obscure figures often working in remote forest areas. This book describes the rapid growth of the industry up to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the emphasis of development changed to the production and refining of charcoal's by-products - acetic acid, tar and wood spirit - for the textile industry and the rapidly growing chemical industries. The use of charcoal and its chemical products decline in the western world as methods changed but today it is still widely used in the metal industries. The industry has entered a new cycle of growth because charcoal is the only solid, high-temperature and sokeless fuel which is made from a renweable source of raw material.
D W Kelley has been involved in the charcoal industry for many years. He joined the oldest and largest British manufacturer, Shirley Aldred & Company Ltd, in 1959 was Managing Director from 1969 to 1983. He has been Chairman of the former National Associatin of Charcoal Manufacturers and is Chairman of the British Charcoal and Coppice Group.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780852637319 |
| ISBN 10 | 0852637314 |
| Title | Charcoal and Charcoal Burning |
| Author | Dw Kelley |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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