Measurement and Modeling of Energetic-Material Mass Transfer to Soil-Pore Water
Abstract
Military test and training ranges operate with live-fire engagements to provide realism important to the maintenance of key tactical skills. Ordnance detonations during these operations typically produce minute residues of parent explosive chemical compounds. Occasional low-order detonations also disperse solid-phase energetic material onto the surface soil. These detonation remnants are implicated in chemical contamination impacts to groundwater on a limited set of ranges where environmental characterization projects have occurred. Key questions arise regarding how these residues and the environmental conditions (e.g., weather and geostratigraphy) contribute to groundwater pollution. This final report documents the results of experimental and simulation model development for evaluating mass-transfer processes from solid-phase energetics to soil-pore water.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA631327
Entities
People
- Cedric M. Sallaberry
- James M. Phelan
- Joshua S. Stein
- Stephen W. Webb
- Teklu Hadgu
Organizations
- Sandia National Laboratories