2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Processing and Handling of Energetic Materials

This session seeks contributions describing advances in processing and handling of energetic materials including pyrotechnics, propellants, and explosives with a strong focus on safety and characterization.

Chair

Lori J. Groven, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Co-Chair

Andrew G. Pearsall, Nalas Engineering Services, Inc.

Presentations

12:30 PM

(501a) Bringing Particle Scale Properties into Descriptions of Energetic Powder Behavior Via the Enhanced Centrifuge Technique
Stephen P. Beaudoin, Caralyn A. Coultas-McKenney, Contessa Norris, Andrew Roginski, Kacie Bradfish, Emma Weiglein

12:50 PM

(501b) Numerical Simulation of Munitions Response for Fragment IMPACT
Ruslan S. Mudryy

01:10 PM

(501c) Filled Spherical Composite Particles Prepared By Mechanical Milling
Mehnaz Mursalat, Daniel Hastings, Mirko Schoenitz, Edward Dreizin

01:30 PM

(501d) Influence of Nanoconfinement on the Degradation of CL-20 and HMX
Rozana Bari, Aric Denton, Zachary Fondren, Victor Stepanov, Sindee Simon, Gregory McKenna

01:50 PM

(501e) Influence of Catalyst on the Mechanochemical Nitration of Toluene
Ashvin Kumar Vasudevan, Edward L Dreizin, Mirko Schoenitz

02:10 PM

(501f) Ignition of Reactive Material Powders in Vicinity of an Electrostatic Discharge
Ci Huang, Mirko Schoenitz, Edward Dreizin

02:50 PM

(501h) Synthesis and Characterization of a Biocidal Co-Crystal
Clinton Chapman, Lori J. Groven