Ensuring environmentally clean disposal of energetics
- Army Dugway Proving Ground, UT (United States)
The Department of Defense, recognizing the need to dispose of munitions without injuring the environment, has developed a testing system to characterize the emissions produced by open-air burning of propellants and detonation of explosives. This system, which has been successfully audited by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), employs a unique assembly of leading technologies and has proven to be sensitive, accurate, rapid, and relatively inexpensive. Although specifically designed for testing energetic munitions, it holds considerable potential for use in characterizing the combustion products of a wide variety of government and commercial energetic and nonenergetic waste products. This paper describes the system`s evolution, components, and enhancement for the testing of shrapnel-producing munitions; a synopsis of testing programs; other potential applications; and anticipated inclusion of future testing-system developments in the Federal technology-transfer program.
- OSTI ID:
- 113223
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940499--; ISBN 1-56590-014-6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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