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Demilitarisation of Munitions

Reuse and Recycling Concepts for Conventional Munitions and Rocket Propellants

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Editors:
  1. Victor H. Baryakhtar

    1. National Academy of Science, Kiev, Ukraine

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  2. Theo Rosendorfer

    1. E.S.T. Entsorgungs- und Sanierungstechnik GmbH, Schrobenhausen, Germany

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1 (ASDT, volume 16)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Demilitarisation Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Main Issues of Rocket Propellant Components Storage and Disposal

      • Alexander Serdiouk
      Pages 7-9

    3. Demilitarisation in Germany

      • Dieter Weidenhagen
      Pages 11-35

    4. Demilitarisation of the Nuclear Weapons Located in Ukraine in Nuclear Safe and Environment Compatible Manner: Scientific & Technological Aspects

      • Victor G. Baryakhtar, Ivan Oleynik, Mikhail Mitrakhovich
      Pages 37-42

    5. Procedures for the Demilitarisation of Gun Ammunitions and Pioneer Munitions

      • Bernd Stürmer
      Pages 43-57

    6. Demilitarisation Technology and Examples of Conversion

      • Jean Rene Boisseau, Marie Gaudre, Jean Michel Tauzia
      Pages 59-69

  3. Recycling Technologies for Explosives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Recycling and Disposal Techniques for Energetic Materials

      • Horst Krause
      Pages 73-80

    3. The Extraction of TNT From Till Term of Storage Ammunition

      • Leonid M. Kapkan, S. J. Syikov, M. J. Zybritsky, A. A. Anisimov, V. J. Atamanjuk
      Pages 81-84

    4. Biotechnological Aspects of Explosives Utilisation

      • Yury Bashlyk, Jury G. Voilov, Victor I. Sokolenko
      Pages 85-87

    5. Reuse, Reclamation or Destruction of Large Solid Rocket Motors: Lessons Learned in the USA

      • Michael Elleman
      Pages 89-89

    6. Colloid Biotechnology for Propellant Destruction with Utilisation of the Processing Products

      • V. A. Prokopenko, Z. R. Ulberg, N. V. Pertsov
      Pages 91-96

  4. Recycling and Reuse of Liquid Rocket Fuel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Comprehensive Utilisation of Liquid Fuel Constituents for Rockets

      • L. M. Kapkan, A. Yu. Chervinskij, A. N. Vdovichenko, M. V. Savoskin, A. P. Jaroshenko, A. F. Popov et al.
      Pages 99-103

    3. Economically Reasonable Ways of Utilisation of Rocket Fuel, 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine, to Usable Products

      • Alexander Chervinsky, A. N. Vdovichenko, Z. M. Kapkan, M. V. Savoskin, A. P. Jaroshenko, V. V. Zheleznjak et al.
      Pages 105-109

    4. Chemical Processing of Fluid Propellant Heptyl: Synthesis and Properties of the Surface Active Substances Obtained from Heptyl

      • Yuly Tanchuk
      Pages 111-128

    5. Polymers Based on Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine

      • Valery U. Shevchenko
      Pages 129-137

    6. Utilisation of Oxidant for Rocket Fuel, Dinitrogen Tetroxide, as a New Starting Material for the Synthesis of Expandable Graphite

      • Mikhail Savoskin, A. P. Jaroshenko, L. M. Kapkan, A. Ju Chervinskij, V. V. Zheleznjak, O. M. Kosulnikov
      Pages 139-142

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 145-151
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About this book

Hitherto the disposal of munitions was mostly concerned with obsolete stocks, but the political developments in the states of the former Soviet Union have necessitated the disposal of vast quantities of current and obsolete stocks. Obviously, open burning/open detonation cannot be used on such a large scale, not least for environmental considerations.
There are two main technical problems associated with the disposal of munitions on the scale required. First, the materials are not simple wastes or rubbish. Their handling, storage, packaging and transportation are subject to very rigid regulation, and justifiably so, for obvious reasons. Second, they are very valuable goods, for which a high price has been paid by the holding states' economic systems. Mere destruction would mean the irretrievable loss of the value invested. But therein lies the problem. Goods like steel or brass scrap can easily be reclaimed, but hypergols and other rocket fuels (for instance) represent a true chemical challenge, while, under certain conditions, explosives may be diverted to civilian use. This, in summary, is the problem that the present book deals with: the two-pronged attack involving demilitarization and recycling technologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Academy of Science, Kiev, Ukraine

    Victor H. Baryakhtar

  • E.S.T. Entsorgungs- und Sanierungstechnik GmbH, Schrobenhausen, Germany

    Theo Rosendorfer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Demilitarisation of Munitions

  • Book Subtitle: Reuse and Recycling Concepts for Conventional Munitions and Rocket Propellants

  • Editors: Victor H. Baryakhtar, Theo Rosendorfer

  • Series Title: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5604-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4654-8Published: 31 July 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6363-0Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5604-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-1820

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 151

  • Topics: Organic Chemistry, Polymer Sciences

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