Lime kiln
A lime kiln is a kiln used to produce quicklime by the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate). The chemical equation for this reaction is:
Limestone is poured into one side of the kiln, it is then heated up with hot air and quicklime [Calcium Oxide] comes out the other end.
Waste Gases come out of the top of the kiln.
Lime Kiln Media
Rotary lime kiln (rust-colored horizontal tube at right) with preheater, Wyoming, 2010
Traditional lime kiln in Sri Lanka
Archaeologist Colleen Morgan at Çatalhöyük
Lime kilns in Porth Clais, Wales; 2021
Drone video of ruins of limestone ring kiln at Tamsalu, Estonia 2021
Cross section of typical early kiln
Cross section of simple shaft kiln
Gas flows in two cycles of operation of regenerative shaft kilns
Gas flows in an annular shaft kiln
Rotary kiln with preheater: hot gas flows
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