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Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (1993)

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Suggested Citation:"F Committee Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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Suggested Citation:"F Committee Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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Suggested Citation:"F Committee Meetings and Activities." National Research Council. 1993. Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2218.
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F COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES 250 F Committee Meetings and Activities 1. Committee Meeting, March 9-10, 1992, Washington, D.C. The following presentations were made to the committee: (a) "Introduction to the Chemical Demilitarization Program," Brig. Gen. Walter L. Busbee, Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (b) "Description of Agents/Munitions," Mr. Mark Evans, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (c) "History and Program Rationales of the Demilitarization Program," Mr. Charles Baronian, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (d) "Current Status of Demilitarization Facilities: Johnson Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) and Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF)," Maj. Paul E. Wojciechowski, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (e) "Description of the Demilitarization Processes-Baseline Process and Cryofracture Process," Mr. Robert P. Whelen, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (f) "Safety Requirements for Design," Mr. Robert Perry, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (g) "Agent and Non-Agent Monitoring Program Requirements: Destruction Standards and Classification of Agent, Munitions, Dunnage, Metal Parts," Mr. Donald Pugh, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army.

F COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES 251 (h) "Treaty Status and Requirements," Brig. Gen. Walter L. Busbee, Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. 2. Committee Meeting and Workshop, June 3-5, 1992, Washington, D.C. The following presentations were made to the committee at its workshop: (a) "Enzyme System for Degrading G-agents," Dr. Joseph J. DeFrank, U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Engineering Center (CRDEC). (b) "Combined Chemical/Bacterial Degradation of Sulfur Mustard," Dr. Steve Harvey, U.S. Army CRDEC. (c) Use of Microbial, Bacterial and Enzyme-based Systems in Detoxification of Organophosphate Insecticides," Dr. Jeffrey S. Karns, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pesticide Laboratory. (d) "Development of Enzyme-based Bioremediation Systems for Nerve Agent Destruction," Dr. Clement E. Furlong, University of Washington. (e) "Bioreactor Scale-up and Design," Dr. Ronald Unterman, Envirogen, Inc. (f) "Bioremediation Opportunities and Challenges," Dr. Jonathan Mielenz, COGNIS, Inc. (g) "Complex Environmental Toxins Subject to Bioremediation," Dr. Fran Kremer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (h) "General Chemistry of Nerve Agents," Dr. Joseph Epstein, U.S. Army CRDEC. (i) "Destruction of Mustard and Nerve Agents," Dr. Fred Menger, Emory University. (j) "Iodoscarboxylates as Catalysts for the Destruction of Reactive Phosphates," Dr. Robert Moss, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey.

F COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES 252 (k) "Army Experience with Neutralization at Rocky Mountain Arsenal," Mr. Edward Coale and Mr. Stephen DePew, Office of the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization, U.S. Army. (l) "Russian Experience in Chemical Agent Destruction," Dr. Joseph F. Bunnett, University of California, Santa Cruz. (m) "Wet Air Oxidation Destruction," Dr. William Copa, Zimpro Passavant Environmental Systems, Inc. (n) "Hydrogenation Processes," Mr. Don Hedden, UOP. (o) "High Temperature Steam Reforming," Mr. Terry Galloway, Synthetica Technologies, Inc. (p) Supercritical Water Oxidation (i) "Overview of Supercritical Water Oxidation," Dr. Jefferson Tester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (ii) "Supercritical Water Oxidation Industrial Design," Dr. Glenn Hong, MODAR, Inc. (iii) "DARPA Supercritical Water Oxidation Program," Mr. Michael Spritzer, General Atomics. (q) "Review of Fluid-Bed Combustion Applications," Dr. Frances Holm, Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (r) "Molten Metal Applications via the Catalytic Extraction Process," Dr. Christopher J. Nagel, Molten Metal Technology. (s) "Review of Molten Salt Technologies," Dr. Lawnie H. Taylor, Department of Energy. (t) "The Adams Process for Conversion to a Sulfur Polymer," Dr. Edgar Berkey, Center for Hazardous Materials Research, and Mr. James Hendricks, Burns and Roe. (u) Plasma Technologies (i) "Plasma Arc Process," Dr. Dale L. Keairns, Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites.

In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.

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