Process Efficacy

EDT Process Maturity Process Efficacy Process Throughput Process Safety Public and Regulatory Acceptabihty in a U.S. Context Secondary Waste Issues Destruction Verification Capabihty Process Flexibility Total 

NOTE The above values for each evaluation factor are the average of each committee member s rating on a scale of 0-10. These average values were then summed to arrive at the totals given in the last column. Small differences in the summed ratings, up to about five poinfs, were not considered to be significant by the committee. There was no weighting. 

TABLE S-4 EDT Ratings Summary for Requirement P-1, Destruction of All Leakers and Reject Munitions at Pueblo Comprising Approximately 1,000 Rounds of Mustard Agent HD/HT-Filled Munitions (Mixture of 4.2-in. Mortars and 105- and 155-mm Projectiles) 

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A second consideration in development is that investigational/clinical materials, while not requiring validation, can benefit from some rudimentary efforts to confirm process efficacy. Developmental materials that are intended to be sterile must be supported by validation studies that fulfill that expectation. (See Sec. 4 on sterile products for a summary of these.)... 

New EU directives may limit the development and application of new biocides and for this reason, and concerns on toxicity or pollution, there is interest in alternative water treatment techniques such as ultrasound, high-pressure vortexing and electro-coagulation. These may also be used where chemical treatment is not appropriate. ATP measurements are likely to prove useful to monitor the effectiveness of these types of treatment but as with chemical biocidal treatment the nature of the ATP results may depend on the mode of action. One type of electrochemical treatment has been evaluated in our laboratory. The results indicate that as with chemical biocide treatment the use of both Total and Free ATP measurements can be of value in the interpretation of the results, monitoring the process efficacy and in optimisation of this method of water treatment. 

B-2 Process Efficacy/Throughput Subfactor Evaluations for Tier 1 Munitions Processing Technologies, 91... 

Process efficacy/throughput also involves process stability, reliability, and robustness. Considering the wide variety of non-stockpile materials that may be encountered in the future, and the conditions to which they may have been... 

Process maturity and process efficacy/throughput Process maturity... 

Tier 1 International Munitions Processing Technologies Process Efficacy Subfactors CDC DAVINCH... 

Process Efficacy Subfactors Russian Two-Stage Neutralization/ Bitumenization Incineration U.S. RRS, SCANS, and Neutralization and Hydrolysis... 

Update the previously published evaluation of the DAVINCH, CDC, and Dynasafe static kiln technologies for the destruction of chemical munitions, to include the NSCM EDS or any viable detonation technologies. Evaluation factors will include process maturity, process efficacy/throughput rate, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, secondary waste issues, and destruction verification capability. 

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