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

Product Ecology

Kiln

Made of

• CEB - walls, floor
• Concrete Mixer - Concrete
• Controller Box - Temperature controls

Uses

• Sawmill - Lumber
• Gasifier - Heat
• CEBs - Bricks

Creates

• Cement (clay + lime) for Concrete Mixer.
• Lumber (dried)
• Charcoal
• Glassware
• Metal (from ore)
• Bricks (fired)

See Also

Wikipedia: Kiln] Wikipedia: Wood Drying