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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2008. Review and Assessment of Developmental Issues Concerning the Metal Parts Treater Design for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12074.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2008. Review and Assessment of Developmental Issues Concerning the Metal Parts Treater Design for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12074.
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Appendix B Committee Meetings and Site Visits First Committee Meeting: September 5-7, 2007 Overview of PCAPP Process and Munitions Treatment Unit Pasco, Washington (MTU) and Supplemental Decontamination Unit, MTU Function and Feeds, Comparisons to MPT: Paul Dent, Objectives: National Research Council introduction (ad- Manager, PCAPP Technical Risk Reduction Program ministrative actions, including committee introductions and composition/balance/bias discussions for committee members), committee statement of task and background Site Visit: September 22-23, 2007 review with sponsor, receive detailed process and equipment St. Marys, Pennsylvania briefing presentations (performance requirements, modeling Objectives: Receive detailed process and equipment briefing results, and test results) for first-of-a-kind Blue Grass metal presentations, including performance requirements, model- parts treater (MPT) and related Pueblo munitions treatment ing results, and test results for the MTU; visit Abbott Furnace unit (MTU), review preliminary report outline and report Company to see the MTU. writing process, confirm committee assignments, writing teams’ first draft, decide future meeting dates, MTU site visit team, and next steps. Briefings and Discussions Introduction to Abbott Furnace: Mike Gelsick, Director of Marketing, Abbott Furnace Company Briefings and Discussions Consideration of Statement of Task with Sponsor: Bob Design Overview Using Large MTU Wall Drawing: Tom Jes- Beaudet, Committee Chair; Joe Novad, Technical Director, berger, Chief Technical Officer, Abbott Furnace Company Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA); Dar- ren Dalton, Blue Grass Design Team Leader, ACWA MTU TRRP Testing and Test Results: Scott Pierce, MTU Project Manager, Abbott Furnace Company Overview of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) Process: Sam Hariri, BPBGT Process Tour of MTU: Abbott Furnace Company Design Lead Review of Upgrades for First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) MTU: Metal Parts Treater Design and Performance Detail: Mark Tom Jesberger, Chief Technical Officer, Abbott Furnace Rieb, Deputy Director, Parsons Technology Development Company and Fabrication Complex; John Ursillo, BPBGT Pasco Resident Engineer; Jonathan Berkoe, Manager, Bechtel SDU/Autoclave Open Discussion: Craig Myler, Bechtel Advanced Simulation and Analysis Group Pueblo 47

48 Review and Assessment of Developmental Issues Concerning the Metal Parts Treater Design Second Committee Meeting: October 16-18, 2007 Third Committee Meeting: November 6-8, 2007 Beckman Center, Irvine, California Beckman Center, Irvine, California Objectives: Receive additional briefings, review first full Objectives: Review first full message draft, determine what message draft, produce preliminary concurrence draft, and is not yet known and how to learn it, produce preliminary determine what is not yet known and how to learn it. concurrence draft, sign concurrence documents. (No brief- ings scheduled.) Briefings and Discussions Metal Parts Treater Design and Performance: Darren Dal- ton, Blue Grass Design Team Leader, ACWA; Ed Rogers, Bechtel; Roger Dickerman, Washington Group International; Sam Hariri, BPBGT Process Design Lead

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The United States is in the process of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. In 1996, Congress mandated that DOD demonstrate and select alternative methods to incineration at the Blue Grass and Pueblo sites. The Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program was setup to oversee the development of these methods, and pilot plants were established at both sites. One of the new technologies being developed at the Blue Grass pilot plant are metal parts treaters (MPTs) to be used for the empty metal munitions cases. During recent testing, some issues arose with the MPTs that caused the ACWA to request a review by the NRC to investigate and determine their causes. This book presents a discussion of the MPT system; an assessment of the MPT testing activities; an analysis of thermal testing, modeling, and predicted throughput of the MPT; and an examination of the applicability of munitions treatment units under development at Pueblo for the Blue Grass pilot plant.

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