Outdoor weathering and dissolution of TNT and Tritonal

Outdoor dissolution of detonation residues of three insensitive munitions (IM) formulations

“…Our experiment was set up in an area enclosed with a locked chain link fence and next to a dedicated rain gauge. These tests are like those conducted for high explosives (Taylor et al, 2009(Taylor et al, , 2010.…”

“…Quasi-linear dissolution does not occur for the NTO or NQ (SM-5, SM-6), or for most mm-sizes particles of these formulations (Taylor et al, 2015), or for Comp B and TNT (Lever et al, 2005;Taylor et al, 2009). In all these cases the explosive pieces loose more mass initially when soluble constituents are at or near the surface of the chunk, and then mass loss decreases as constituents are depleted or as water has a harder time contacting the constituents.…”

A modified lignin adsorbent for the removal of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene

“…At present, destruction and concentration are two typical methods to reduce or remove TNT from liquid waste. Destruction methodology, such as oxidation with hydrogen peroxide/ozone [6][7][8], photocatalytic oxidation [9][10][11][12] and biological degradation [13][14][15][16][17], involves advanced technology to destroy TNT structure. However, these treatments cannot be widely applied due to their own problems, such as high cost, long cycle, secondary pollution, etc.…”

Modeling the dissolution of various types of mixed energetic residues under different flow conditions

“…Composition B and Octol, has been investigated [1,5,6,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. To obtain more quantitative information as well as to provide potential prediction methods, dissolution models have also been developed [6,7,10,11,21]. Lever et al [10] and Taylor et al [6,21] developed the "dropimpingement" model to simulate the dissolution of mm and cm-sized energetic residues that rested on glass frits upon the direct impingement of simulated raindrops.…”