Kiln

Overview

A kiln is a giant oven that enables the hardening, burning, drying, or firing of materials.

Easily constructed with CEB or Concrete, a Kiln serves a wide number of useful functions

• Drying wood for firewood.
• Heating wood to pyrolysis for Charcoal
• Annealing, fusing, deforming, painting glass
• Smelting ore to extract metal
• Heating limestone with clay to make cement or quicklime.
• Firing bricks from CEBs

Research

Wood Drying

A freshly felled tree cut into logs and run through the Sawmill will produce [Green Lumber]. While viable as a construction material in many applications, green lumber has a nasty habit of warping and shrinking over time (which can cause issues).

One approach toward addressing this is simple air drying. The lumber is stacked in a clean, cool, dry and shady area, atop raised foundations, with spacers (called stickers) laid crossways at regular intervals for ventilation. While air-drying Sawmill lumber is a viable option (and produces high-quality lumber), it is a process that can take months to years.

A kiln accelerates this process by rapidly heating and drying the lumber, enabling on demand fabrication of wood products.

Product Ecology

Kiln

Uses

• CEB - walls, floor
• Concrete Mixer - Concrete
• Sawmill - Lumber
• Gasifier - Heat
• Controller Box - Temperature controls

Creates

• Cement (when mixed with lime) for Concrete Mixer.
• Lumber (dried)
• Charcoal
• Glassware
• Metal (from ore)
• Bricks (fired) from CEB

See Also

Wikipedia: Kiln] Wikipedia: Wood Drying