Incineration for Demilitarization of Waste Cyclotol

Lee, Si-Hwang; Baek, Seung-Won; Moon, Il; Park, Jung-Su; Kim, Hyoun-Soo; Oh, Min

doi:2016.19.4.545

J. KIMS Technol > Volume 19(4); 2016 > Article

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2016;19(4):545-550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2016.19.4.545

Incineration for Demilitarization of Waste Cyclotol

Si-Hwang Lee, Seung-Won Baek, Il Moon, Jung-Su Park, Hyoun-Soo Kim, Min Oh

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanbat National University
²Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University
³The 4th Research and Development Institute, Agency for Defense Development

회수 Cyclotol의 비군사화를 위한 소각공정

이시황, 백승원, 문일, 박정수, 김현수, 오민

¹국립한밭대학교 화학생명공학과
²연세대학교 화학생명공학과
³국방과학연구소 제4기술연구본부

Abstract

Demilitarization involves the disposal and recovery of obsolete explosives or ammunition. Cyclotol has been used as a military explosive along with RDX and HMX. A limited number of processes exist for safe disposal due to their sensitivity to thermal shock. Rotary kilns are widely used for thermal decomposition in many countries due to cost effectiveness and simplicity compared with supercritical oxidation. Phase change as well as condensed phase reactions(CPRs) and gas phase reactions(GPRs) with rates described by the Arrhenius equation of cyclotol has been considered in this work. Changes in gas fraction, reaction rate and mass of explosives were predicted at 490, 505 and 575 K. A maximum temperature of 2062 K has been predicted within the reactor at an initial temperature of 575 K due to GPRs. From this research, Thermal decomposition in the rotary kiln is plausible for demilitarization.

Key Words: Cyclotol, Demilitarization, Thermal decomposition, Dynamic simulation, gPROMS