One Step No Waste Composition C4 Production

Abstract

The Composition C4 (C4) hand-moldable M112 demolition blocks are used by all Department of Defense (DoD) services and are consumed at the rate of several hundred thousand blocks per year. Since 1950, C4 has been produced by a 10-step water slurry batch process that uses an organic solvent-based lacquer to apply a binder system to RDX nitramine crystals. The C4 batch method is labor and energy intensive with some inherent environmental risk. Then the C4 bulk powder is trucked to another facility to be post-processed into M112 demolition blocks via two additional manufacturing steps.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1135630

Entities

People

  • Dilhan Kalyon
  • John Centrella
  • Natasha M. Khatri

Organizations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

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  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Programs
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Explosives
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Performance Tests
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional

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