Explosive Destruction System EDS

Although not many cases are expected, any energetic materials contaminated with agent must be decontaminated or destroyed. One alternative is to dissolve the entire munition in an acid bath (Battelle, 1999). Another is to destroy the energetics in the Army s explosive destruction system (EDS),2 a portable self-contained chamber in which two to six bursters can be handled at one time (Thompson, 2000a U.S. Army, 2001a). 

Advantages of ADP over the explosive destruction system (EDS) may be greater throughput capacity, smaller volume of waste produced, and no requirement for explosive containment. Disadvantages appear to be lower destruction efficiencies (based on tests conducted by Battelle), a requirement for offgas treatment, and safety concerns. 

Explosive Destruction System (EDS) Lewisite and VX Testing, Trish Weiss, EDS Systems Manager, PMNSCMP... 

However, plans currently also call for installation of a system employing a detonation technology or the Nonstockpile Chemical Materiel (NSCM) Project s Explosive Destruction System (EDS) to process leaking munitions and/or contaminated explosive components. Detonation technology is not... 

Three explosive destruction system (EDS) units have been in operation since June 13,2006, at the Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System (PBEDS) facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. One of these is an EDS Phase 1 unit (EDS-1) with a vessel volume of 0.19 m and a containment capacity of 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) TNT-equivalent NEW. The other two are the larger EDS-2 units, each having a... 

Allan Caplan, System Development Group Leader, NSCMP, CMA, Explosive destruction system (EDS)—A mobile treatment system, presentation to the committee. May 7,2008. 

Evaluate mobile destruction systems and semi-permanenC facilities being used or considered by the Army s Non-stockpile product manager for the treatment of non-stockpile CWM and make recommendations on the systems and facilities that could be employed by the Army and their interrelationships. This analysis will specifically include consideration of issues and opportunities associated with the Explosive Destruction System (EDS), the Rapid Response System (RRS), the Munitions Assessment and Processing System (MAPS), the Pine Bluff Non-stockpile Facility (PBNSE), alternative treatments for neat chemicals, and selected aspects of the stockpile facilities. 

Explosive Destruction System (EDS) Mobile trailer system in which explosively configured munitions are explosively accessed and their chemical contents are neutrahzed... 

Finds of complete CAIS PIGs have added a technical requirement for opening the PIG container to access the individual CAIS vials and identify their content prior to treatment. This additional requirement prevents using the Explosive Destruction System (EDS) or Single CAIS Accessing and Neutralization System (SCANS). 

PMNSCM has developed the transportable Explosive Destruction System (EDS) as the workhorse system for destruction of both explosively and nonexplosively configured munitions in the field. The EDS-1 prototype was recently deployed to Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where it successfully destroyed 10 sarin bomblets. Improved versions of the EDS-1, as well as a larger EDS-2, are currently in development. Once these developments are completed, this category appears to be well covered. The EDS appears to be sufficiently flexible that it might also be used in other NSCWM treatment categories (see EDS discussion in Chapter 2 and Recommendation 2-5). 

U.S. Army. 2001c. Emergency Destruction Plan for M139 Bomblets Filled with GB at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, using die Explosive Destruction System (EDS). Product Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Aberdeen, Md. Final Revision 3, January 2001. 

Again, a caution is necessary around experimental ordnance sites because only seven key elements are routinely analyzed with the PINS system. Experimental chemical agents, such as bromine compounds, may not be detected. Thus, at the present time a PINS unit may still fail to identify common potential hazards. However, they are the best thing around short of the explosive destruction system (EDS). The EDS is a sealed heavy steel explosive chamber which can open the shell and analyze its content, and then neutralize it. 

Examine alternative destruction technologies for liquid waste streams generated from the Explosive Destruction System (EDS). 

This report supplements an earlier report (NRC, 2001a) that evaluated eight alternative technologies for destruction of the liquid waste streams from two of the U.S. Army s transportable treatment systems for nonstockpile chemical materiel the rapid response system (RRS) and the munitions management device (MMD)This report evaluates the same technologies for the destruction of liquid waste streams produced by a third transportable treatment system, the explosive destruction system (EDS). 

SOURCE Michael L. Duggan, Group Leader, Mobile Systems Acquisition, Explosive Destruction System (EDS), presentation to the committee, June 15, 1999 U.S. Army 2001d U.S. Army 2001e U.S. Army 2001L... 

U.S. Army. 2001e. Draft Standing Operating Procedures (SOP), Explosive Destruction System (EDS) Phase 1, Unit 1 Operations, June 2001, Table 3-1. Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center. 

Explosive Destruction System (EDS) Chemical munitions with explosive components. Phase I prototype in testing Phase II model in design. 

Evaluate the near-term (1999-2005) application of advanced (non-incineration) technologies, such as from Army s Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA) program and the Alternative Technologies and Approaches Project (ATAP), in a semi-fixed, skid-mounted mode to process Rapid Response System (RRS), Munitions Management Device (MMD), and Explosive Destruction System (EDS) liquid neutralization wastes. 

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