Laboratory Tests to Determine the Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Propellant-Solvent-Fuel Oil Mixtures

Abstract

The military currently has an inventory of approximately 158,000 metric tons of propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics, with a total of 249, 000 metric tons projected by the year 1993. This inventory includes obsolete conventional munitions and waste propellant generated during the manufacturing process. The current alternatives to storage are open-air burning, open-air detonation, or incineration to slowly reduce the inventory of these materials. The United States Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency (USATHAMA) is currently coordinating a program to assess the feasibility of utilizing propellants dissolved in an appropriate solvent and further blended with fuel oil as supplemental fuel for Army industrial combustors. This report discusses the results from the initial phase of this program. (JES)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA222270

Entities

People

  • C. E. Breed
  • D. J. Craft
  • V. M. Norwood

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Double Base Propellants
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Organic Chemistry

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Rocket Propulsion.