Recovery and Reuse of HMX/RDX from Propellants and Explosives

Abstract

Currently DoD has no method of recovering high value energetics, such as HMX/RDX, from Class 1.1 propellants and explosives for reuse applications. DoD has over 53,000 tons of HMX/RDX material in the Resource Recovery and Disposition Account (RRDA) and expect to generate several thousand more tons over the next five years. Without a reclamation and reuse process, the value of these products are lost as they are destroyed by open burning and open detonation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 1999
Accession Number
ADA607447

Entities

People

  • Dan Burch
  • Jim Wheeler
  • Keith Sims
  • Mike Miks
  • Tom Schilling

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosives
  • Fuels
  • Hydroxides
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Melting Point
  • Munitions
  • Nitric Acid
  • Organic Materials
  • Propellants
  • Recovery
  • Refractory Metals
  • Separators
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.