A Study of Freezing and Vacuum Flashing to Recover Acetone from Acetone-Water-Energetic Mixtures.

Abstract

In this work thermodynamic data is obtained on acetone-water-energetic mixtures. Also, two processes, freezing and flashing, are evaluated for recovery of acetone from the mixtures. The specific energetic compounds used in this work are dinitrotoulene and trinitrobenzene. Current environmental legislation requires clean-up of contamination by energetic compounds at military industrial facilities. The energetic compounds (explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics) contaminate soils, buildings, and equipment. Probably the most significant contamination occurs in the lagoon sediment at some of these facilities. jg p.8

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA301923

Entities

People

  • George G. Chase
  • Rajesh Boggavarapu

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Chemical Analysis
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Chromatographs
  • Environmental Protection
  • Heat Energy
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mixtures
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Phase Transformations
  • Solid Solutions
  • Solvent Extraction
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transitions

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering