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2 The Supercritical Water Oxidation and Water Recovery System Processes Planned for Use at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
Pages 14-20

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... Additional SCWO feed streams include and rockets that contain them in a munitions pretreatment spent decontamination solution, condensate from the metal area. The energetic materials in the munitions include RDX parts treater offgas treatment system, and other condensates.
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From page 15...
... simulant, and the blended simulant used in FOAK testing The actual compositions of the hydrolysates that will of SCWO. Note that the simulated hydrolysates were not be produced at BGCAPP are not yet known with certainty, intended to contain all of the chemical species that could because no detailed, quantitative, analytical characteriza- be present in actual agent hydrolysate.
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From page 16...
... ethanethiol a2.5 parts simulated energetics hydrolysate to 1 part simulated agent • 2-Diisopropylaminoethyl ethyl ether ­hydrolysate. • 2-Diisopropylaminoethyl ethyl sulfide b Agent hydrolysate simulant constituents are diluted further by the additives used in the energetics hydrolysate recipe; hence the di • Acetamide, N-(3-methyl-2-buten-1-yl)
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From page 17...
... . TABLE 2-6  Simulated Blended Hydrolysate Used in VX Energetics Hydrolysate Composition FOAK Testinga In addition to the nerve agents GB and VX, the M55 Constituent (with additives)
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From page 18...
... corrosion rates. There have been different approaches to handling corrosion in SCWO systems, including preventing corrosive species from reaching reactor surfaces, altering the GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SUPERCRITICAL feed stream composition or processing conditions to reduce WATER OXIDATION corrosion, or managing corrosion by using sacrificial reactor SCWO has been studied for nearly 40 years.
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From page 19...
... Pre- • Three SCWO effluent storage tanks, where the effluvious pilot-scale work verified that SCWO can achieve high ent will be analyzed to ensure that the total organic destruction efficiencies for actual hydrolysate produced from carbon (TOC) concentration is less than 10 ppm; both nerve agents and from energetic materials as well as for • A conventional pretreatment system consisting blended hydrolysate (BPBGT, 2014)
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From page 20...
... 2007. SCWO Building Water Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant's Water Recovery System.
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Key Terms

  • supercritical water
  • agent hydrolysate
  • foak testing
  • water oxidation
  • blue grass

  • scwo reactor
  • scwo effluent
  • chemical weapons
  • scwo reactors
  • water recovery

  • chemical agent
  • destruction pilot
  • simulated energetics
  • actual agent
  • blended hydrolysate

  • quench water
  • agent destruction
  • grass chemical
  • blowdown water
  • hydrolysate simulant

  • nerve agents
  • energetic materials
  • scwo process
  • hydrolysate composition
  • simulated hydrolysates

  • feed stream
  • trace components
  • cooling tower
  • flow diagram
  • pilot plant


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