Meet Pottery Kiln Lab

This corner of the web is devoted to the development and operation of practical and efficient fuel-fired pottery kilns. No vague principles but data and explanations based on solid engineering and scientific principles, challenging a number of commonly repeated assumptions in pottery kiln design.

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Combustion and Reduction Firing in Pottery Kilns

One reason to build a fuel-burning kiln is to produce beautiful reduction glaze effects. Whether kilns are wood-fired, gas-fired or oil-fired, the atmosphere can be starved of oxygen to produce these effects. This article outlines the chemical changes involved in combustion, explains the important differences between these types of fuel and the implications for the design and operation of the kiln.

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Kiln K2 CAD front view

Experimental kiln design

This article gives details about the design of an experimental gas-fired kiln. It was designed to be a practical working kiln that can also be a test kiln exploring alternative materials and DIY construction techniques and to provide a way to test several innovations for optimising fuel use in studio-scale kilns.

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