Alarms at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Chemical Weapons Storage Sites

摘要

Alarms are a normal part of disposing of chemical weapons just as people use alarm clocks and timers to stay organized, the U.S. Army's disposal facilities use sensors and alarms on thousands of pieces of equipment. The sensors and alarms help ensure a safe process for the workforce, public and environment. These alarms and sensors are on items such as doors, switches, valves, conveyor systems, automated equipment, furnaces, and storage and chemical treatment tanks. Sensors or monitors measure temperatures; position; pressure; flow rates; tank fill levels; percent level of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and other gases in the stack gases; plus they monitor for the presence of chemical agent. Computers used by high-trained and dedicated operators to control operations safely at disposal facilities record several thousand a arms daily as part of normal processing, including alarms that are generated as a regular part of the daily testing of agent monitors.