Blast_Furnace_03

Blast_Furnace_03

The third in a set of 3 blast furnaces modelled on those at Shelton Bar steelworks in the 1930s.
At the opening of a session in Driver the furnace will always be nearing the end of a firing cycle. Animations show the furnace being tapped for slag and hotmetal (molten iron) at a random point within the first 30 minutes of the session. 10 minutes after that, the recharging of the furnace with ore, coke and limestone using a skip on a gantry crane will commence.
The asset is industry interactive with inputs of coke, iron ore and limestone and outputs of hotmetal and slag.
This furnace has the capacity to produce 81 tons (11250 litres) of hotmetal every 8 hours (allowing 6 hours of firing plus 2 hours for recharging in the 1930s). Blast furnaces were not usually operated at full capacity. The utilisation rate ( a value between 0.0 and 1.0, where 1.0 indicates operation at full capacity) for this furnace is set by a variable in the config file's string table.
While input unloading from rail wagons to hoppers is handled conventionally, the hotmetal and slag loading to free-standing ladle wagons is under custom script control to co-ordinate the load animations of the furnace and the wagon. Use 'Hot_Metal_Ladle_Wagon' kuid:84609:50201 and 'Slag_Ladle_Wagon' kuid:84609:50208 for this purpose. Once an instance of this asset is placed on a route, always add a hotmetal ladle wagon under the lower tapping chute for hotmetal and a slag ladle wagon under the higher tapping chute for slag.
To enable the successful exchange of messages between the blast furnace and the ladle wagons, a strict naming convention must be followed.
When naming the assets in Surveyor, each set of blast furnace, hotmetal wagon and slag wagon must be given names that consist of 2 parts separated by a blank space: a set ID and an asset-type.
The set ID is a unique name you give to a set. The asset-type is either 'BlastFurnace', 'HotmetalLadle', or 'SlagLadle'.
For example, if the set name is 'Shelton_BF3' and the asset type is 'BlastFurnace' , the unique name to enter is 'Shelton_BF3 BlastFurnace'.
This asset is compatible with the Shedmaster rule <kuid:160293:10065>. Compatibility must be set using Edit Properties in Surveyor.

Author: Andy Kemplen

Blast_Furnace_03
• blast_furnace_02-03_v24_sm.gs 54.20KB
• blast_furnace_03.im 318.59KB
• bricks.texture.txt 29 bytes
• bricks.tga 48.04KB
• bricks_special.texture.txt 37 bytes
• bricks_special.tga 48.04KB
• coke.texture.txt 27 bytes
• coke.tga 24.04KB
• coke_load.im 700 bytes
• coke_load.kin 7.99KB
• config.txt 24.59KB
• cooling2.texture.txt 31 bytes
• cooling2.tga 48.04KB
• cooling3.texture.txt 31 bytes
• cooling3.tga 236 bytes
• corugated_metal.texture.txt 38 bytes
• corugated_metal.tga 48.04KB
• dressingfloor.texture.txt 36 bytes
• dressingfloor.tga 96.04KB
• flow-b.jpg 8.76KB
• flow-b.texture.txt 29 bytes
• flow.jpg 8.67KB
• flow.texture.txt 27 bytes
• furnace.texture.txt 30 bytes
• furnace.tga 96.04KB
• gantry.im 15.08KB
• gantry.kin 71.33KB
• hopper.texture.txt 29 bytes
• hopper.tga 48.04KB
• hotmetal.im 6.73KB
• hotmetal_v2.kin 38.82KB
• ironore.texture.txt 30 bytes
• ironore.tga 24.04KB
• limestone.texture.txt 32 bytes
• limestone.tga 24.04KB
• limestone_load.im 712 bytes
• limestone_load.kin 8.00KB
• minerals_skip_load.wav 104.12KB
• minerals_wagon_dump.wav 119.04KB
• ore_load.im 708 bytes
• ore_load.kin 7.99KB
• pipes.texture.txt 28 bytes
• pipes.tga 96.04KB
• plug.im 1.29KB
• plug.kin 8.64KB
• red_lead.texture.txt 31 bytes
• red_lead.tga 12.04KB
• runner.texture.txt 29 bytes
• runner.tga 48.04KB
• sand_shadow.texture.txt 34 bytes
• sand_shadow.tga 48.04KB
• skip.im 34.64KB
• skip.kin 547.35KB
• skip_coke_load.im 2.04KB
• skip_load.im 2.04KB
• skip_load.kin 12.62KB
• skip_ore_load.im 2.06KB
• slag.im 6.88KB
• slag_v2.kin 52.18KB
• tanks.texture.txt 28 bytes
• tanks.tga 96.04KB
• thumbnail.jpg 33.07KB
• timer.im 1.43KB
• timer.kin 43.14KB
• timer1.im 1.43KB
• timer1.kin 1.98MB
• timer2.im 1.43KB
• timer2.kin 43.14KB
• windows.texture.txt 30 bytes
• windows.tga 48.04KB

This item supplied by rail-sim for use within Trainz TS12 and TANE. No warranty is given nor any liability accepted for any damage which may be caused by the use of this item. No re-distribution, re-skinning, or modification is allowed without the prior permission of rail-sim.