Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies -

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Résumé :
This book assesses a broad range of mobile technologies that have been proposed by agencies throughout the world as alternatives to incineration for the remediation and destruction of chemical warfare agents and associated emmat?riel/em. Treatments of both metal parts and explosive or energetic materials are considered. The alternative technologies are grouped into three categories based on process bulk operating temperature: low (0-200?C), medium (200-600?C), and high (600-3500?C). Reactions considered include neutralization, biodegradation, hydrolysis, electrochemical oxidation, supercritical water oxidation, wet air oxidation, plasma reactions, gasification, hydrogenation, pyrolysis, and others. A broad spectrum of processes are described, many of which are as yet only in the laboratory stage while others are in commercial use. br/ emAudience:/em Engineers, technologists and decision makers who require an understanding of the developmental status of alternative demilitarization technologies.

Sommaire:
1. Chemical Demilitarization Program.- 2. Cryofracture as a Mobile Demilitarization Technology for Non-Stockpile Chemical Munitions.- 3. Chemical Warfare Agent Destruction with Solvated Electron Technology.- 4. Biodegradation of Alkanes and PCBs: Experience in the Czech Republic.- 5. Chemical Detoxification of Chemical Weapons Applying Sodium-Technology.- 6. Mobile Demilitarization Systems.- 7. The Application of the Silver II Electrochemical Oxidation Process for the Demilitarization of Non-Stockpile Material.- 8. Sulchem Process for Treatment of Chemical Weapons-Related Wastes.- 9. The Remediation of a Former Military Site with a Mobile Plant for Soil Washing and Thermal Treatment.- 10. Hydrothermal Oxidation.- 11. Texaco Gasification Process.- 12. The Eco Logic Process.- 13. Plasmachemical Destruction of Chemical Weapons.- 14. Overview of Radioactive and Mixed Waste Cleanup Technologies.