Publication Date:
2016-05-12
Description:
The egregious sensitivity of high energetic materials such as RDX and HMX has prompted efforts by researchers in the production of less sensitive explosives by crystallization without compromising performance. One such endeavour is crystal-size reduction to nano-scales. In this work, the optimum operating conditions for producing nano-sized RDX were determined from experiments. Based on these results, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling and simulations were executed for scale up purposes and the identification of the influence of fluid dynamics, mixing and heat transfer on crystal growth and production rate on commercial scales. As a result, a commercial plant was designed and operation data from the commercial crystallizers compared with data obtained from scale up tasks.
Print ISSN:
0930-7516
Electronic ISSN:
1521-4125
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
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