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Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (2012) / Chapter Skim
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... ACWA is charged with destroying the mustard agent stockpile at Pueblo and the nerve and mustard agent stockpile at Blue Grass without using the multiple incinerators and furnaces used at the five CMA demilitarization plants that dealt with assembled chemical weaponsmunitions containing both chemical agents and explosive/propulsive components. The two ACWA demilitarization facilities are congressionally mandated to employ noncombustion-based chemical neutralization processes to destroy chemical agents.
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... Chapter 3 also develops and describes a half-dozen scenarios involving prospective ACWA secondary waste characterization, process equipment maintenance and changeover activities, and closure agent decontamination challenges, where direct, real-time agent contamination measurements on surfaces or in porous bulk materials might allow more efficient and possibly safer operations if suitable analytical technology is available and affordable. TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITY The last 5 years have produced very rapid development of ambient ionization mass spectrometric techniques capable of real-time surface and bulk material chemical analyses with little or no sample preparation.
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... A range of scenarios occurring during agent disposal operations and facility closure activities have been defined and developed by the committee to illustrate the potential utility of real-time ambient ionization mass spectrometric detection of chemical agent contamination. Although commercially available ambient ionization mass spectrometry instrumentation in the specific configurations recommended by the committee may not currently be available off the shelf, the major components have been commercialized, and a number of analytical instrument vendors are capable of designing, assembling, and demonstrating instruments meeting potential ACWA specifications.
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Key Terms

  • agent contamination
  • ambient ionization
  • ionization mass
  • chemical agents
  • mass spectrometry

  • agent concentrations
  • contamination measurements
  • contamination characterization
  • mass spectrometric
  • secondary waste

  • disposal facilities
  • waste materials
  • chemical weapons
  • agent disposal
  • mustard agent

  • agent stockpile
  • specific ambient
  • ionization technology
  • weapons disposal
  • disposal operations

  • facility closure
  • spectrometry instrumentation
  • blue grass
  • statistical basis
  • process equipment

  • measurements using
  • porous materials
  • current army
  • closure activities
  • acwa chemical


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