Review of biotreatment, water recovery, and brine reduction systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant / Committee on Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant, issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical weapons disposal--Congresses.

Chemical weapons disposal.

Chemical weapons disposal--Environmental aspects--Congresses.

Pueblo Chemical Depot (U.S.).

Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

" The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PCD features about 2,600 tons of mustard-including agent. The PCD also features a pilot plant, the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), which has been set up to destroy the agent and munition bodies using novel processes. The chemical neutralization or hydrolysis of the mustard agent produces a Schedule 2 compound called thiodiglycol (TDG) that must be destroyed. The PCAPP uses a combined water recovery system (WRS) and brine reduction system (BRS) to destroy TDG and make the water used in the chemical neutralization well water again. Since the PCAPP is using a novel process, the program executive officer for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program asked the National Research Council (NRC) to initiate a study to review the PCAPP WRS-BRS that was already installed at PCAPP. 5 months into the study in October, 2012, the NRC was asked to also review the Biotreatment area (BTA). The Committee on Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant was thus tasked with evaluating the operability, life-expectancy, working quality, results of Biotreatment studies carried out prior to 1999 and 1999-2004, and the current design, systemization approached, and planned operation conditions for the Biotreatment process. Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant is the result of the committee's investigation. The report includes diagrams of the Biotreatment area, the BRS, and WRS; a table of materials of construction, the various recommendations made by the committee; and more.'-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Summary""; ""1 Background""; ""2 The PCAPP Biotreatment System""; ""3 The Water Recovery and Brine Reduction Systems""; ""4 Materials of Construction Review""; ""Appendix A: Table of Materials of Construction""; ""Appendix B: Corrosion-Monitoring Guides and Testing Materials Suppliers""; ""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""Appendix D: Committee Meetings""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9780309263962

0309263964

9780309263948

0309263948

OCLC:

923289552