Title Effects of the deletion of chemical agent washout on operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant / Committee on Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Agent Destruction Pilot Plant ; Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineeirng and Physical Sciences, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Published Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 37 pages) : color illustrations Contents Introduciton -- Plant process changes as a result of washout deletion -- Impacts on calculation of destruction efficiency -- Process modeling in support of washout deletion -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Committee activities -- Appendix B: Sketches of Committee members Summary "The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are aging, storage constitutes an ongoing risk to the facility workforces and to the communities nearby. In addition, the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty stipulates that the chemical weapons be destroyed. The United States has destroyed approximately 90 percent of the chemical weapons stockpile located at seven sites. Due to public opposition to the use of incineration to destroy the BGAD stockpile, Congress mandated that non- incineration technologies be identified for use at BGCAPP. As a result, the original BGCAPP design called for munitions to be drained of agent and then for the munition bodies to be washed out using high-pressure hot water. However as part of a larger package of modifications called Engineering Change Proposal 87 (ECP-87), the munition washout step was eliminated. Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant examines the impacts of this design change on operations at BGCAPP and makes recommendations to guide future decision making"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed April, 2016) Subject Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant Chemical weapons disposal -- Kentucky -- Richmond Water reuse -- Kentucky -- Richmond Hazardous waste sites -- Kentucky -- Richmond -- Design and construction SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Inventions. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference. Chemical weapons disposal Hazardous waste sites -- Design and construction Water reuse Kentucky -- Richmond Form Electronic book ISBN 9780309389495 0309389496

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