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US 6,603,050 B2Granted
Destruction of energetic materials
AssigneeUXB International, Inc.
InventorHarley L. Heaton
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Abstract
Improved apparatus and approaches are described for destruction of energetic materials. The approaches include hydrolysis of the energetic materials by combining a volatile base and water with the energetic materials. The unreacted base from the hydrolysis reaction mixture is recovered and reused for further hydrolysis of energetic materials. The apparatus include components suitable for recovering and reusing unreacted base.
Claims16
A method for converting energetic materials comprising:
- combining a volatile base with energetic materials and water to obtain a reaction mixture that hydrolyzes the energetic materials;
- recovering unreacted base;
- compressing the unreacted base;
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- combining the unreacted base with the water containing energetic materials.
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