Method for the manufacture of composite explosives

US4714572A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nobel Kemi AB · SE

Inventors

• Sigurd Back · Karlskoga, SE
• Jan Nyqvist · Västerås, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 1986
• Grant date: Dec 22, 1987
• Expiry date: Sep 26, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C06B45/22
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a method for producing composite explosives of the type hexotonal and octonal by the intermediary of a two-stage wet granulation process comprising a first granulation stage for producing primary granules of a certain amount of TNT (the primary TNT) suspended in water, together with other desired components in the explosive, with the exception of the aluminum powder, which, in its turn, is mixed into the remaining amount of secondary TNT in order thereafter, in a secondary granulation stage, to be added to the mixing water with the primary granules suspended therein, for a successive build-up of their surface layer.