Environmental Fate of Nitroguanidine, Diethyleneglycol Dinitrate, and Hexachloroethane Smoke
Abstract
The U.S. Army is responsible for the production of explosives used in conventional military weapons and chemicals used in screening devices to conceal equipment and personnel during military operations. Part of the Army's database to assess the health and environmental impact of such chemicals concerns how long such chemicals persist in the environment and the mechanisms by which their loss and movement is controlled once they are discharged from a manufacturing facility or utilized in training operations. Three chemicals either being produced or used by the Army are the propellants, nitroguanidine (NG) and diethyleneglycol dinitrate (DEGDN), and hexachloroethane (HCE), a major component of HC smoke. In Phase I (Spanggord et al, 1985), the dominant pathways that control the loss and movement of these chemicals were identified through literature review and laboratory screening studies. These studies identified photolysis as a major transformation route for NG and DEGDN and biotransformation as a major route for HC, NG, and DEGDN.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA200324
Entities
People
- Ronald J. Spanggord
- Theodore Mill
- Tsong-wen Chou
- Werner Haag
- Wyman Lau
Organizations
- SRI International