Source Characterization Model (SCM): A Predictive Capability for the Source Terms of Residual Energetic Materials from Burning and/or Detonation Activities

摘要

This is the final report for the Source Characterization Model (SCM) developed by Aerodyne Research, Inc. (ARI) in collaboration with the U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC). It describes work performed under contract DACA72- 00-C-0001 from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for the project CP-1159 entitled 'A Predictive Capability for the Source Terms of Residual Energetic Materials from Burning and/or Detonation Activities'. A portion of thisreport was previously released as a supplement to the 2002 Annual Report for that SERDP project. Detonation of energetic materials produces a wide range of air and surface pollutants, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, acid gases, and particulate matter. These emissions, including undecomposed or partially decomposed energetic materials, may lead to atmospheric pollution or ground water contamination. The speciation and amounts of these emitted pollutants depend on the identity and amount of energetic material detonated, the detonation order, the detonation mode (air burst, surface detonation, buried detonation), and the munitions type (shell, mine, detonation charge, etc.). In order to determine whether U.S. military training or munitions disposal activities produce emissions that threaten air or ground water quality, reliable estimates of emission factors must be available for a representative fraction of the thousands of munitions types in the inventory. A variety of recent detonation experiments, including detonation chamber tests, and open-air field detonations have yielded increasingly rich data sets of measured gaseous and particulate emissions factors from a range of energetic materials deployed as both unconfined charges and standard munitions. These data have been used under CP-1159 to guide the development of a detonation source characterization model (SCM) to be used to predict emissions across munitions classes and detonation modes.