Video: Glazed Arkaim stove - a forgotten technology
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
The article describes an interesting design of the Arkaim stove. In it, when the hearth and the well were combined, a natural and strong air draft was created. The air entering the column of the well (in the illustration below) was cooled by the water located in the column of the well and entered the furnace.
It is known that a sufficiently high temperature is required to melt bronze, which cannot be obtained without supplying a large volume of air to the combustion site.
"The ancient Aryans were provided with sewerage systems. Moreover, each dwelling had a well, a stove and a small domed storage. Why? Everything ingenious is simple. We all know that from the well, if you look into it, it always draws cool air. So, in For the Aryan stove, this cool air, passing through an earthen pipe, created a draft of such force that it allowed melting bronze without the use of furs! Such a stove was in every dwelling, and the ancient blacksmiths could only hone their skills, competing in this art! Another earthen pipe, leading to the storage room, providing a lower temperature in it. " (Rites of Love, Ch. Arkaim - Academy of the Magi, p. 46).
There was a well next to the furnace, while the furnace blower was connected to the well through an air-blowing channel arranged in the ground. Experiments carried out by archaeological scientists have shown that the Arkaim "miracle furnace" can maintain a temperature sufficient not only for melting bronze, but also for smelting copper from ore (1200-1500 degrees!). Due to the air duct connecting the stove with an adjacent well of five meters depth, a draft arises in the stove, which provides the required temperature. Thus, the ancient inhabitants of Arkaim embodied mythological ideas about water that gives birth to fire into reality.
There is no absurdity here, because the cold air supply was also used in ancient smelting furnaces in Europe:
A quick method of converting cast iron into steel was developed in 1856 by the Englishman G. Bessemer. He proposed to blow the molten liquid iron with air in the expectation that the oxygen in the air will combine with carbon and carry it away in the form of gas. Bessemer was only afraid that the air would cool the cast iron. In fact, the opposite turned out - the cast iron not only did not cool down, but heated up even more. Unexpected, isn't it? And this is explained simply: when the oxygen of the air combines with various elements contained in cast iron, for example, silicon or manganese, a considerable amount of heat is released.
By the way, our 18th century Russian scientist Mikhailo Lomonosov came closest to the mystery of the miracle ovens. Visiting the Ural mines, he drew attention to the cool air coming from the mines and became interested in this phenomenon. This is what the same Vladimir Efimovich Grum-Grzhimailo writes about him, whose work Alexander Spirin found in the attic: calling Lomonosov his predecessor, he wrote in the preface to his book:
"In his dissertation" On the free movement of air in mines noted "(1742), he gave a crystal clear idea of the movement of air in mines and chimneys. In further attempts to explain the movement of gas in the stoves, the word "draft" got confused, grammatically absurd, because the verb pull presupposes a direct connection between the force and the object that is stretching. heavy air, as MV Lomonosov correctly pointed out, never used the word "draft".
The question arises: what force causes the cold air to move upward? For example, take the case of two communicating vessels that contain water. You can take a flexible building level. No matter how we change the height of either end of the hose, the water in both vessels is always at the same level. Could it be the same if the communicating vessels contain not a liquid, but a gas? Yes, if the diameter of the vessels is the same. But if one vessel has a diameter of a decimeter, and the other vessel has a diameter of a meter, will the gases occupy the same level relative to the surface of the earth? Indeed, in this case, it is necessary to take into account the pressure of the atmosphere on the upper area of the gas. Let's take a Vedrusian well connected by a channel to a stove. The diameter of the outlet channel is 8-12 cm, the cross-section of the well channel is equal to a square meter. Obviously, the pressure of the atmospheric column in the well will be greater than the pressure of the atmospheric column in the outlet channel, plus the weight of the cold air in the well itself, which means that cold air will be quietly squeezed into the furnace space of the furnace, fulfilling the purpose of the blower.
It turns out that the draft, the presence of which in modern stoves was so appreciated by stove-makers, in stoves with free movement of gases is a harmful phenomenon, since there is an uncontrolled release of valuable heat into the surrounding space and its irreversible loss of up to 80%, which also means that up to 80% of the forest cut down and burned in vain. The ecology of the soil and atmosphere is violated, as substances harmful to health remain due to incomplete combustion of the fuel.
To eliminate the harmful phenomenon of draft in the Old Russian stove, the outlet channel from the furnace must be arranged in the lower part, in the zone of cold air. Thus, the incandescent gases and hot air circulating in the upper compartment of the furnace are not removed outside, but accumulate ever increasing heat. This is where the temperature that melts metals comes from. A mixture of cool air and bottom hot gases captured by the flow is removed from the combustion chamber. Having reached the top of the pipe, the gases finally cool down and are thrown out barely warm, in fact, as three scientists from the Yaroslavl Research Institute recorded, studying the Alexander Spirin furnace.
Of the modern furnace designers using the scientific developments of Professor Grum-Grzhimailo, I only know Igor Kuznetsov, but he, of course, does not use the well principle in his designs, although he achieved high efficiency of his furnace designs.
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