Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln

Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln, VSBK in Chambo, Ecuador - Horno Vertical Continuo HVC

About

• updraft kiln for firing bricks
• developed in China in the late 1960s during the cultural revolution
• updraft = heat is reused
• firing shaft is very well insulated on all four sides, minimizing heat loss
• bricks are loaded at the top and removed at ground level in a continuous process
• combines low cost of updraft firing with high fuel economy
• operation very similar to that of a vertical shaft lime kiln

Videos

vsbk (vertical shaft brick kiln) from sajid on Vimeo.

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Further Information (links)

• http://www.swisscontact.org/fileadmin/media/Medienberichte/0913_Vertical_Shaft_Brick_Kiln_VSBK_01.pdf (internal copy: here)
• http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/GATE_DL/BUILDING/VS/EN/VS.HTM
• http://www.teriin.org/technology/brick-kiln-technology
• Devalt.org: "The Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln : a technology for the masses" (internal copy here)
• Article from GATE - 4/91 - Environmental NGOs Humanity Development Library - The Chinese vertical Brick Kiln