The increased emphasis on environmental concerns has strongly impacted operations involving energetic materials processing. Safety requirements for these operations include a high degree of cleanliness, both of equipment and operating spaces. The recommended procedure for clean-up after an operation, steam washdown, has long been prohibited because of the pink water waste stream that results. This report describes the solution to this problem that has been implemented locally, a closed-loop system ...
The task reported on here was performed for the Belvoir Research, Development and Engineering Command, and is a portion of a significant effort in the area of Explosives Mine Countermeasures. The goal is to develop a weapon system capable of clearing a path 8m wide by 100m long through a minefield, while under enemy fire. A further consideration is the requirement that the weapon system be relatively invulnerable to all ...
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