chamber kiln
chamber kiln
[′chām·bər ‚kil] (engineering)
A kiln consisting of a series of adjacent chambers in a ring or oval through which the fire moves, taking several days to make a circuit; waste gas from the fire preheats ware in chambers toward which the fire is moving, while combustion air is preheated by ware in chambers already fired.
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