Force to Fail Reactions With Monoethanolamine: Application to the Explosive Destruction System.

摘要

The primary purpose of this effort was to determine the maximum loading of chemical warfare agents (CWA) which could be utilized and still meet the treatment goal under typical Explosive Destruction System (EDS) operating conditions. The intention was not to conduct an investigation into whether the reaction kinetics and product distribution change with increased agent loadings. The primary metric of success was the residual agent concentration remaining in the neutralent. GB was successfully neutralized to less than the treatment goal of 1 mg/L at loadings 3 5 times the typical GB loading of 10%. HD was successfully neutralized to less than the treatment goal of 50 mg/L at loadings 4 5 times the typical HD loading of 10%. VX was not reduced below the treatment goal of 1 mg/L under any of the conditions evaluated during this study. In the 1% VX loading experiments conducted at 60 deg C for 6 h, the residual VX was approximately 3 times higher than the treatment goal.