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Accession Number:
AD1135630
Title:
One Step No Waste Composition C4 Production
Report Date:
2018-09-01
Abstract:
The Composition C4 (C4) hand-moldable M112 demolition blocks are used by all Department of Defense (DoD) services and are consumed at the rate of several hundred thousand blocks per year. Since 1950, C4 has been produced by a 10-step water slurry batch process that uses an organic solvent-based lacquer to apply a binder system to RDX nitramine crystals. The C4 batch method is labor and energy intensive with some inherent environmental risk. Then the C4 bulk powder is trucked to another facility to be post-processed into M112 demolition blocks via two additional manufacturing steps.
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Pages:
127
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6.70MB
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Approved For Public Release
