Abstract
This paper presents the development of the models for analyzing a Deactivation Furnace System (DFS) for processing rockets containing the agent GB (Sarin). The DFS is one of the U.S. Army incinerators for destroying the highly toxic chemical agents and munitions contained within the chemical weapons stockpile. The DFS is a gas-fired counterflow rotary kiln designed to treat energetics (fuses, boosters, bursters, and solid rocket propellant). The DFS model consists of two parts: (1) an energetics/rocket piece combustion submodel coupled with a transient zonal furnace combustion model, and (2) the gas-phase combustion/ destruction computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The model exhibits good agreement with measured data taken at two incineration sites processing M55 rockets containing GB.
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