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Description
The Crystallization Formulation Lab fills a critical need in the
process development and optimization of current and new explosives
and energetic formulations. The prototype facility was designed to
facilitate the scale-up of crystallization, and slurry coating
processes.
Currently the 4-story facility, designed to easily reconfigure
existing and/or add new equipment, is equipped with 2 temperature
controlled, highly instrumented, interchangeable 50 gallon reactor
vessels, high capacity heaters and chillers, 2 high precision
liquid feeders, and a solvent recovery system, all of which are PLC
controlled through a control system with model based control (MBC)
precision recipe control and data acquisition.
Future uses of the facility include process optimization, modeling
and resolution of scaling-up issues for energetic processing of
neat nitramine-based explosives such as HMX, RDX and other
energetic materials such as NTO, PETN and/or TATB.