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2 Description of the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant Process
2 Description of the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant Process
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Ancillary wastes also include demili First, during the transfer and disassembly steps, the tarization protective ensemble (DPE) suits, waste lumunitions on their storage pallets or in boxes are trans brication and hydraulic oils, spent activated carbon, and ported in ammunition transport vehicles from the other trash and debris that may be contaminated with depot's storage igloos to the agent destruction facility.
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In the residuals treatment processes, metal parts such TRANSFER AND DISASSEMBLY OF MUNITIONS as the projectile casings, fuze cups, nose closures, and metals separated from dunnage streams are treated by At Pueblo Chemical Depot, chemical munitions are being heated to at least 1000°F for 15 minutes to de- stored on pallets in igloos and are periodically checked compose any residual agent and energetics. This pro- for leakers (i.e., leaking munitions)
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arm similar to those used in automotive assembly and 6PCAPP briefing by Craig Myler, PCAPP Chief Scientist, to the other manufacturing operations. The disassembly staACWA Design Committee, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., April 13, 2004.
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the removed energetics from the explosion containment rooms to separate processing areas. In the current de HYDROLYSIS OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS sign, the 4.2-inch mortar round propellant sheets and the propellant bags containing M1 propellant separated Hydrolysis of energetic materials begins in either of from the projectiles in the munitions reconfiguration two ERHs.
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The MWS and the associtetryl, and neither should be toxic at concentrations that ated CAMs were designed to address problems that might be inadvertently released to the ICBs. had been encountered with gelled agent during the pro cessing of mustard agent munitions at the Johnston Is land facility (the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent DisAGENT PROCESSING posal System, or JACADS)
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, superheated solution is in a neutral range. This process and the reacsteam at 1200°F is introduced into the process chamber tion conditions are identical to those used by the Aberof the MPT as a carrier gas to move vaporized agent deen Chemical Agent Destruction Facility for the deand other gases produced from the 5X decontamina- struction of the bulk mustard agent stored at Aberdeen tion process into the MPT offgas treatment system.
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.11 The ICB design is the same as the system used for the ear DUNNAGE TREATMENT lier ACWA engineering design studies conducted for Pueblo.12 All contaminated wood pallets, used DPE suits, and Normally, the bioreactor liquid effluent will be sent other contaminated nonmetallic waste will be shredded directly to the brine recovery system (BRS) for the re- in the dunnage shredding and handling system, and the covery of most of the process water.
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The ded materials will be mixed with carbon carrier mate- annular space between the shells is filled with a gas, rial -- either similar to the activated carbon used in the presumably inert or with very low oxygen content. The HVAC filters or coconut shell activated carbon -- and auger shell containing the auger and its end-mounted then fed to the CST.
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24 . 2004 26, July Scientist, Chief ACWA Yang, Yu-Chu by Provided SOURCE: treater.
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25 04. 20 26, July Scientist, Chief ACWA Yang, Yu-Chu by Provided SOURCE: treater.
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ing the lower chamber is collected and cooled in an A nitrogen sweep gas flows countercurrently air-locked bin, where the vapor space is sampled to through the lower auger shell into the upper auger verify agent destruction. Subsequently, the treated mashell and exits that shell with the superheated steam- terial is released to a hazardous waste disposal site.
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