Activities

The reflection and overall assessment of the IH4Future comprises an enlarged discussion with colleagues of other Industrial Heritage Museums.

In July, we visited the Barbadinhos Steam Pumping Station from the Water Museum in Lisbon. One of the four machines is operating for demonstration purposes.

In June 2021, we began the overall project assessment and the definition of the next research guidelines. Results are coming soon....

In May 2021, we started a new analytical campaign to study the coatings of the Joseph Farcot steam engine. At this campaign, we approach the alteration of the coatings due to high temperatures

In April 2021, we started gathering data obtained for the material characterization of the carbonization furnaces and we embraced a big challenge!

Does the charcoal produced at the Factory stories to tell? SEM examination will unveil them.

After the second lockdown, we returned to the factory to collect the ferrous alloys samples for the metallographic study of the grinding workshop equipment.

At the beginning of 2021 we continued with the simulation of the XRF spectrometer, started in November 2020.

The simulation will provide cross-checking the quantitative results obtained for alloys characterization in task 3.

During November 2020, we analysed the dynamic behaviour of the Farcot steam engine and collected samples from the inactive Pierre Dumora boiler for material characterisation.

In September 2020, we approached the behaviour mechanism study of the Farcot steam machine by using vibrational analysis. For this study, the project relies on two mechanical engineering master students from DEMI-FCT/UNL supervised by Tiago Silva.

A radiographic campaign was held on September 9th 2020 to characterise the steam admission system of the Farcot engine. In this campaign, carried out with the support of LABEND-ISQ, we tested several methodologies using, among others, different radiation sources.

In July 2020, the material study of the Farcot steam machine by using XRF continued. This time we counted with the support of Dias de Sousa, S.A. and Bruker.

In July 2020 started the microstructural characterisation of the FPVM equipment material. The study began by the sampling of the carbonisation furnaces metals.

In February 2020, paint coatings of the Joseph Farcot steam engine were investigated by using stereomicroscopy and Raman spectrometry.

In November 2019 the insertion of the historic information in the Ecomuseum Database started.

The information collected during the research of historical documentation of the factory will be accessible through the Ecomusem database.

In June 2019, it was carried out a non-destructive ultrasonic testing of the Joseph Farcot steam engine for cracks detection.

This activity was done in collaboration with LABEND-ISQ.

In May 2019, the material characterisation of the Joseph Farcot steam engine started by the analysis of the analysis of the metal parts by XRF.