Refining Building

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in the mechanical removal building. One cell will house

deck and washed or steamed out. The explosive flows

a major caliber defuzer capable of defuzing projectiles

by gravity down through a dryer and onto a flaking

up to 16 inches in diameter. The other two cells will

conveyor and then is packaged for storage or

contain large band saws for sawing mine cases, depth

incineration.

A water treatment facility is located

charges, and large rockets.

adjacent to the washout/steamout building. All process

water used will be filtered and recycled.

i. Refining Building. It is desirable to recover

explosives from ordnance items without contamination

m. Decontamination

Building.

The

from steam or water. This is accomplished by a "melt-

decontamination building contains three rotary furnaces

out" process in which live steam is applied to the outer

similar to APE 1236. They are used to demilitarize

surface of the item. In the refining building, racks

complete rounds of small caliber ammunition, fuzes,

containing the ordnance items are lifted to the top deck

and primers. In order to insure that metal parts sold for

by overhead crane and placed in steam enclaves. The

scrap are completely free from explosive contamination,

molten explosive is collected in hoppers and poured into

they must be flashed by raising them to a temperature

a "flaking" conveyor where it solidifies into small pieces.

higher than that necessary to cause the explosive to

The pieces are packaged and hauled away by driverless

burn. Medium caliber projectiles are loaded onto racks

tractor for storage and resale.

and moved by an overhead conveyor through a flashing

k. Bulk Incinerator Building. Certain explosive

furnace and then past a water spray for cooling. Items

too large for the conveyor are located onto steel carts

materials have no reuse or resale value and must be

and moved into the large items flashing chamber where

disposed of by incineration. These materials are moved

a powder train is used for flashing. Bag house filters are

by driverless tractor to the bulk incinerator building in

used to remove any particulates from the smoke

55-gallon drums where they are ground up and mixed

resulting from all incineration operations.

with water to form a slurry. The slurry is then pumped to

two rotary kilns for incineration. An afterburner is

n. Administration Building and Boiler Building. The

provided to reduce the contamination of the resulting

administration building will house offices, a cafeteria, a

smoke. The smoke also passes through a bag filter.

quality assurance laboratory, and a boiler facility which

Each incinerator can consume 550 pounds of explosive

can be fired by either coal or oil, and has three boilers,

per hour.

each capable of generating 5,00 pounds of steam per

l. Washout/Steamout

Building.

The

hour. Effluent air from the facility is filtered through a

series of baghouses before being released to the

washout/steamout building has two towers, each of

atmosphere.

which has an overhead crane. Large items such as

mines and depth charges are lifted to the upper work

o. Magazines. Five magazines are provided for

short-term storage to support operations.

These

magazines are of conventional design.

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