Kiln Design
Various sources on kiln design (gas and electric).
Building the Mani Kiln; Potters Without Borders website; 2013
Design of Small Scale Furnace for Fire Resistance of Building Construction Materials; A.S.Ing et al.; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; April 2017
Determination of connective heat transfer coefficients in an intermittent kiln; G Guerrero Gómez et al; 2020; J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1587 012025
Furnace Insulation Thickness and Surface Temperature Calculation; Ground Consulting & Technology Services Ltd web site
Gas burner sizes - Sample calculations - Ward Burner website - also lots more under the Technical Info part of the website
Heat Transfer Calculators; Tools from the Engineering Toolbox website
How thick do I need to make the insulation in my homemade furnace?; Engineering Stack Exchange; 2018
Kiln building guidelines; Potters Without Borders website
Kiln Exhaust Redesign can we make one that performs better?
Kilns and solid state relays, are they worth it?
Modeling of the tunnel kiln control system taking into account the features of the pid controller and fuzzy logic; N.A.Tseligorov et al.; December 2021; Journal of Physics Conference Series 2131(2):022022
Natural Gas Intermittent Kiln for the Ceramic Industry: A Transient Thermal Analysis; R. Soares Gomez et al.; April 2019; Energies 12(8):1568
TechCalc Thermal Calculation Software; thermal calculation software from Isover / St Gobain
Thermal Analysis in an Intermittent Ceramic Kiln; R. Soares Gomez et al.; December 2018; Diffusion Foundations 20:124-142
Thermal Analysis in an Intermittent Kiln with Thermal Insulation: An Experimental Design Approach; R. Soares Gomez et al.; May 2020; Diffusion Foundations 27:99-112
Transient Thermal Analysis in an Intermittent Ceramic Kiln with Thermal Insulation: A Theoretical Approach; R. Soares Gomez et al.; March 2020; Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2020(4):1-15
Using Kiln Boats to Reuse Marine Plastics; Shuo-Fang Liu et al.; J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(4), 465
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