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