Meeting the challenge of characterizing emissions produced by burning chlorinated energetic materials
- Army West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT (United States)
- ECO, L.C., Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
As the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and state regulators increase the stringency and enforcement of regulations concerning emissions produced by open-air detonation of energetic materials, research must provide the means of obtaining emissions data. The BangBox emissions testing program established the technical foundations for emissions characterization which have been accepted by the USEPA and other regulatory agencies; the technical issues remaining are nettlesome and require new approaches in test procedures. Characterizing emissions produced by the open burning (OB) or open detonation (OD) of chlorine-containing energetics is an excellent example. Highly reactive, chlorine combines with a number of materials found in most testing environments, e.g., metal in sampling devices and moisture in the air, thus greatly complicating the testing situation. This paper describes the materials tested, special considerations in preparing the test facility, the means used to account for chlorine, and preliminary results of a developmental test on solid rocket-motor propellants conducted in July and August 1995 at the BangBox test facility at the US Army West Desert Test Center in Utah. The paper also projects how the creative processes used in developing the means for testing chlorine-containing energetics can be applied in resolving other emissions-data needs of the explosives industry such as supporting OB/OD permit applications and responding to notices of deficiency and notices of violation.
- OSTI ID:
- 398403
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960262--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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