| Production of Dioxins and Furans from the Burning of Excess Gun Propellant |
JAN 2011 |
58 pages |
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Isabelle Poulin; Sonia Thiboutot; Sylvie Brochu; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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 | The burning of bags of excess gun propellant left over after an artillery exercise is a common practice on Canadian Forces Base (CFB) ranges and training areas. This process is carried out by aligning and burning the bags on the ground. This operation is known to leave significant quantities of energetic residues. It was also suspected of producing, among its combustion products, dioxins and furans, two structurally and chemically related ... |
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| Validation of Sampling Protocol and the Promulgation of Method Modifications for the Characterization of Energetic Residues on Military Testing and Training Ranges |
Jun 2009 |
146 pages |
| Authors:
Alan D Hewitt; Thomas F Jenkins; Marianne E Walsh; Susan R Bigl; Sylvie Brochu; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| The Military maintains sustainability and environmental stewardship responsibilities for training ranges. One of the environmental challenges is to monitor the surface loading of energetic residues. Method 8330B, which was developed to assist in this task, recommends the use of a MULTI INCREMENT(registered trademark) sampling strategy and total sample processing prior to subsampling and analysis. This demonstration/validation project evaluated scientifically defensible sampling and sample-processing protocols used for the characterization of energetic ... |
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| Characterization and Fate of Gun and Rocket Propellant Residues on Testing and Training Ranges |
Jan-2008 |
597 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas F Jenkins; Sylvie Brochu; Marianne E Walsh; Katerina M Dontsova; Isabelle Poulin; Richard Mantel; Dominic Faucher; Michael R Walsh; Susan Taylor; Susan R Bigl; Sonia Thiboutot; Guy Ampleman; Alan D Hewitt; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS
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| Over the past two years, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the Defence R&D Canada Valcartier have partnered to develop an improved understanding of the distribution and fate of propellant residues on military training ranges in SERDP Project ER-1481. As a portion of this work, field studies have been conducted to estimate the mass of propellant residues deposited per round fired from various munitions. This research included ... |
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| Processing of Training Range Soils for the Analysis of Energetic Compounds |
SEP 2007 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Alan Hewitt; Susan Bigl; Marianne Walsh; Sylvie Brochu; Kevin Bjella; Dennis Lambert; ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| Large soil samples are often necessary to represent areas where analytes are distributed as particulates. Proper processing of these large samples impose additional time, space, and equipment requirements on the laboratory community servicing environmental programs to investigate military training ranges. Part of this study evaluated the robustness of two methods used to process large soil samples for the determination of energetic munitions residues whole sample mechanical grinding (comminution) and solvent ... |
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| Characterization and Fate of Gun and Rocket Propellant Residues on Testing and Training Ranges: Interim Report 1 |
JAN 2007 |
221 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas F. Jenkins; Judith C. Pennington; Guy Ampleman; Sonia Thiboutot; Michael R. Walsh; Emmanuela Diaz; Katerina M. Dontsova; Alan D. Hewitt; Marianne E. Walsh; Susan R. Bigl; Susan Taylor; Denise K. MacMillan; Jay L. Clausen; Dennis Lambert; Nancy M. Perron; Marie C. Lapointe; Sylvie Brochu; Marc Brassard; Rob Stowe; Roccio Farinaccio; ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| The objectives of the research described in this report are to characterize the deposition and accumulation of propellant residues at the various types of firing points at military firing ranges, develop process descriptors to allow estimation of environmental transport rates of individual energetic chemicals from these residues, and collect lysimeter and groundwater monitoring well samples to experimentally assess off-site transport of residues. Estimates of residue deposition are presented for the ... |
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| Distribution and Fate of Energetics on DoD Test and Training Ranges: Final Report |
NOV 2006 |
165 pages |
| Authors:
Judith C. Pennington; Thomas F. Jenkins; Guy Appleman; Sonia Thiboutot; J. M. Brannon; Alan D. Hewitt; Jeff Lewis; Sylvie Brochu; Emmanuela Diaz; Michael R. Walsh; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS
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| Access to live-fire training ranges is vital in maintaining the readiness of our Armed Forces. Understanding the nature of residue deposition and fate is critical to ensuring sound management of ranges. The objective of this project was to characterize residues of high explosives on training ranges. Residues were evaluated by sampling on various types of ranges across the U.S. and Canada. Deposition from high-order and low-order detonations, demolition, including blow-in-place, ... |
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