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Suggested Citation:"G Technology Status Worksheet." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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Suggested Citation:"G Technology Status Worksheet." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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Suggested Citation:"G Technology Status Worksheet." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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G TECHNOLOGY STATUS WORKSHEET 259 G Technology Status Worksheet This technology worksheet was used as a guide by committee members in collecting information. It was also given as an information collection guide to the technology developers. For use as a supplement to the written presentation handout. Use extra sheets as necessary and refer to the topic number/letter. Process: Reviewer: TOPIC COMMENTS 1. Technology Description a. Narrative/Conceptual Flow Sheet b. Proposed advantages 2. Data Base Status a. Chemistry/Physics fundamentals b. Stoichiometry/kinetics 3. Special Considerations a. Hazardous/unusual reagents b. High temperature/pressure c. Corrosion/materials of construction d. Fouling/plugging e. Changing reactivity or selectivity f. Related equipment technology status

G TECHNOLOGY STATUS WORKSHEET 260 TOPIC COMMENTS g. Process stability/temperature excursions/explosion possibility h. Extent to which process can be expected to achieve acceptable level of destruction -- will additional or further treatment by other methods be required 4. By-products and Waste Streams a. Types/composition/quantities (gaseous, liquid, solid) b. Normal/Upset conditions c. Pollution control systems requirements Types/dynamics required/availability/performance 5. Availability of Analytical Techniques for Monitoring a. Process monitoring b. Environmental monitoring of processing area 6. Current Development Status Concept/laboratory/pilot plant/demonstration/commercial 7. Extrapolation to an ability for destruction of chemical agents a. Technical basis b. Probable limits (3X, 5X)* c. Development required to demonstrate this extrapolation 8. Areas of proposed applicability (check appropriate areas) Feed Stream 3X 5X -- Bulk liquid -- Metal parts decontamination -- Energetics -- Dunnage -- Wastes from other ''front end'' processes -- Hazardous chemicals other than the chemical agents (e.g. PCBs)

G TECHNOLOGY STATUS WORKSHEET 261 TOPIC COMMENTS 9. Further tasks and time required to develop/ demonstrate prior to pilot plant level (The additional time to production level will be estimated). 10. Costs to the extent known, with emphasis on special costs such as reagents, materials of construction and waste disposal. * 3X: Decontamination to the extent that material can be transported as toxic waste but still must be under government control. 5X: Complete decontamination and can be released from government control.

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The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites.

In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.

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