Engineering and Development Support of General Decon Technology for the U.S. Army's Installation Restoration Program. Task 2. Composting of Explosives.

摘要

The primary objective of this study was to determine the extent to which TNT and RDX concentrations are reduced by composting under controlled conditions in the laboratory over a period of six weeks. A second objective was to determine if bench-scale composting studies accurately simulate the activity of a larger-scale compost by comparison of parallel studies monitoring TNT and RDX disappearance in laboratory scale (50 g dry weight) and greenhouse (10 kg dry weight) composts. An additional objective was to determine the leachability of TNT or RDX from compost. -BKA.