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4 Rating of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Proposed BGCAPP and PCAPP Applications
4 Rating of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Proposed BGCAPP and PCAPP Applications
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under secondary waste issues, destruction verification capaconsideration. When evaluating a technology such as bility, and process flexibility.
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TABLE 4-2 Throughput Rates of Five EDTs and Their Implications for Schedule: Requirements BG-1, BG-2, and BG-3a,b Requirement TC-60 TDC D-100 DV65 Proposed DV120 SDC2000 BG-1: 70,000 rocket motors N/A 180/day 36/day 72/day 100/day 389 days 1,945 days 972 days 700 days 65 weeks 324 weeks 162 weeks 117 weeks 1.25-2.50 yrs 6.23-12.46 yr 3.11-6.22 yr 2.25-4.5 yr BG-2: 15,000 155-mm mustard 17/day N/Ac 18/day 36/day 30/day agent projectiles 882 days 834 days 417 days 500 days 147 weeks 139 weeks 70 weeks 84 weeks 2.83-5.66 yr 2.67-5.34 yr 1.34-2.68 yr 1.60-3.20 yr BG-3: 70,000 rocket motors and N/Ad N/Ad 2,779 days 1,389 days 1,200 days 15,000 mustard agent projectiles 463 weeks 232 weeks 200 weeks (combined BG-1 and BG-2) 8.90-17.8 yr 4.46-8.92 yr 3.85-7.70 yr aTen-hour operating days, 6-day work weeks, and 52 weeks of operation/year are assumed.
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over, CH2M HILL offers the D-100 system, which is The M28 propellant in M55 rocket motors contains designed to destroy conventional weapons and, if test- 2 percent lead stearatea significant amountand ing is successful, should be capable of being used for the detonator contains a smaller amount of lead azide static firing of the noncontaminated rocket motors.
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Of more direct relevance to this require- had an opportunity to demonstrate an ability to destroy ment, two D-100 systems, the same model proposed M55 rocket motors. for use by BGAD in its static firing proposal, have been installed at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant SDC2000 in Tennessee. CH2M HILL reported that the systems were inactive as of the writing of this report; however, Dynasafe proposes to use the model SDC2000 for they had been used for 3 years to destroy munitions that destruction of the noncontaminated rocket motors.
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the long rocket motors, but the vendor states that the feed system can be enlarged if a new system is built DAVINCH for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP)
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reprethat would be built into a new system for BGCAPP sent peak rather than average throughput rates. Actual would accommodate the 1-m-long rocket motors and processing rates will likely be slower during routine that the aluminum fires experienced at Münster would operations because of the downtime associated with not occur during operations at BGCAPP because the both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
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Public and Regulatory Acceptability in a U.S. Context Process Safety D-100 RCRA permits have been issued for the two D-100 D-100 systems at Milan Army Ammunition Plant and for Use of the D-100 with static firing would not require several other CH2M HILL detonation chambers for donor explosives to be attached to the rocket motors.
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Secondary Waste Issues Destruction Verification Capability D-100 Destruction of M55 rocket motors per Requirement BG-1 does not involve chemical agent, so compliance Secondary waste will consist of spent rocket motor with the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convenbodies and dust resulting from pulsed jet cleaning of the tion (CWC) treaty should not be an issue for any EDT particulate filter.
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However, the large number of rocket motors nologies for requirement BG-1. The D-100 static firing would take between 6.2 and 12.5 years, assuming system would be the most satisfactory EDT to meet that the throughput rates estimated by the technology Requirement BG-1.
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The mustard agent fill in those bombs was 9.45 kg as compared to 5.31 kg mustard agent in the 155-mm projectile. Their Process Maturity explosive weight was 2.3 kg as compared to 0.186 kg in the 155-mm projectile.
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If used to destroy mustard agent-filled 155-mm TC-60 TDC projectiles at Blue Grass, the explosive loading would be well within the capability of the DAVINCH Reliability is a concern for the TC-60. As described units -- that is, even if a 20- to 30-kg donor charge is in Chapter 3, operational problems were observed used, the combined explosive weight of the projectile during the Schofield Barracks operations.
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Requirement BG-2 Ratings for Process Efficacy For the process efficacy evaluation factor for Require Requirement BG-2 Ratings for Process Throughput ment BG-2, the committee gave the TC-60 TDC a rating of 4 and the DAVINCH DV65 and the Dynasafe For the process throughput criterion for RequireSDC2000 ratings of 9. ment BG-2, the committee assigned ratings of 8 to the TC-60 TDC and the DAVINCH DV65.
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Requirement BG-2 Ratings for Process Safety Since there are no DAVINCH units operating in the United States on which to base a perception, the public For the process safety factor for Requirement BG-2, reaction to using DAVINCH for destroying the 155-mm the committee assigned a rating of 7 to the TC-60 TDC, mustard agent-filled projectiles might be favorable. The a rating of 8 to the DAVINCH DV65, and a rating of 9 reaction could also, however, be ambivalent if it is perto the Dynasafe SDC2000.
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The It is likely that the spent lime and spent pea gravel will acidic and basic scrubbers would produce no liquid not be a RCRA hazardous waste for mercury since the effluents but would produce up to 500 lb per day of Levinstein mustard agent in the projectiles at BGAD salts as a filter cake, which would need to be tested contains low levels of mercury. Overall, the second- for contaminants of regulatory concern.
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Additional agent destruction in the vessel offgases takes place in the cold plasma oxidizer, where Requirement BG-2 Ratings for Secondary Waste Issues a DE of >99.99 percent of any remaining mustard agent The DAVINCH produces a relatively small amount has also been demonstrated. The process provides for the of secondary waste and is designed as a hold-test- retention and testing of postoxidizer offgases and, if need release system, which ensures that offgases are free of be, recycling them through the system for any additional agent or other compounds of regulatory concern.
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. layers of steel placed around the outer perimeter of the TABLE 4-4 EDT Ratings Summary for Requirement BG-2, Destruction of 15,000 Mustard Agent H-Filled 155-mm Projectiles at Blue Grass Evaluation Factor Public and Regulatory Secondary Destruction Process Process Process Process Acceptability in Waste Verification Process EDT Maturity Efficacy Throughput Safety a U.S.
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D-100 and TC-60 TDC Combination Requirement BG-3: Destruction of See the discussion in the section "Process Efficacy" Approximately 70,000 NonContaminated for the D-100 for Requirement BG-1 and the discussion M55 Rocket Motors and approximately in the section of the same name for the TC-60 TDC for 15,000 Mustard Agent H-filled 155-mm Requirement BG-2. Projectiles at Blue Grass As was the case for Requirement BG-1, the EDS DAVINCH is not evaluated for Requirement BG-3 because it is The discussions provided for Requirements BG-1 not able to destroy rocket motors.
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The projected campaign length range for the D-100 and TC-60 combination would be about The earlier discussions for Requirements BG-1 and 2.8 to about 5.7 years if the campaigns are done in BG-2 apply to the regulatory aspects of destroying parallel or about 4.1 to about 8.2 years if the campaigns M55 rocket motors and mustard agent projectiles in are done sequentially. This combination was assigned a the DAVINCH.
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Issues For the secondary waste issues evaluation factor for SDC2000 Requirement BG-3, the committee assigned a rating of 8 to the D-100 and TC-60 TDC combination, a rating One issue previously discussed is that the NEW of 9 to the DAVINCH DV65, and a rating of 7 to the limit for the SDC2000 system at Münster is limited by SDC2000. permit to 2.3 kg, which is one-fourth the NEW of the rocket motor.
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. TABLE 4-5 EDT Ratings Summary for Requirement BG-3, Destruction of Approximately 70,000 Noncontaminated M55 Rocket Motors and 15,000 Mustard Agent H-Filled 155-mm Projectiles at Blue Grass Evaluation Factor Public and Regulatory Secondary Destruction Process Process Process Process Acceptability in Waste Verification Process EDT Maturity Efficacy Throughput Safety a U.S.
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DAVINCH This is a mature technology for chemical agent Recommendation 4-4. If the results of testing on destruction that demonstrated the ability to destroy rocket motor destruction are favorable for all of the artillery projectiles in Belgium that were similar to explosive destruction technologies suitable to this task, the 105-mm and 155-mm projectiles at Pueblo and to the Army could use either the CH2M HILL D-100 and destroy recovered bombs in Japan that had a 50 percent TC-60 TDC combination, the DAVINCH DV65, or mustard agent fill, the same agent stored at PCD.
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For the process maturity evaluation factor for Requirement P-1, the committee assigned a rating of 8 to both the TC-60 TDC and the DAVINCH DV65, a Requirement P-1 Ratings for Process Efficacy rating of 7 to the Dynasafe SDC2000, and a rating of For the process efficacy factor for Requirement 10 to the EDS-2. P-1, the committee assigned a rating of 4 to the TC-60 TDC, ratings of 9 to both the DAVINCH DV65 and the Process Efficacy D ynasafe SDC2000, and a rating of 10 to the EDS-2.
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A pair of EDS-2s operating as at total time would be 31 days, or about 5 6-day operat- Pine Bluff could complete the mission in 445 operating ing weeks. The projected campaign length range is thus days, for a projected campaign length of about 1.4 years from about 5 weeks to about 10 weeks.
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DAVINCH The same factors affecting process safety that were DAVINCH discussed for Requirement BG-2 (processing mustard The same factors involved in evaluating the public agent-filled 155-mm projectiles at BGAD) apply to and regulatory acceptability of the DAVINCH for the processing of the three munition types at PCD processing 155-mm mustard agent-filled projectiles at since the same DAVINCH operations are involved.
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If prob lems arise with residual mustard contamination in the TC-60 TDC scrap metal, the metal could be decontaminated by thermal treatment in the main plant. See the "Secondary Waste Issues" section discussion of the TC-60 TDC for Requirement BG-2.
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Leaking destroying the roughly 1,000 leaking and reject munimunitions may require handlers to wear a higher level tions (projectiles and mortar rounds) at PCD since of PPE, observe more stringent safety precautions, and it has destroyed a greater number of similar items allow more time per shot for placing donor and shaped elsewhere and has demonstrated the ability to destroy charges, especially if the munitions are contained mustard agent.
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Richmond, Ky.: Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant.
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