Charcoal and Charcoal Burning

von D. W. Kelley

32 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Charcoal, the smelting fuel of the Bronze Age, has been in continual use in Europe for over five thousand years. This book describes the rapid growth of the charcoal 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.Still widely used in the metal industries, the practice is more important now than ever as charcoal is the only solid, high-temperature and smokeless fuel to be made from a renewable source of raw material.

• Reihe: Shire Publications
• ISBN: 9780852637319
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2002
• Größe: 209 x 150 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc