BGCAPP Monthly Recap – November 2018 | Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)

BGCAPP Monthly Recap – November 2018

Published: December 6, 2018 | Category: BGCAPP News, Monthly Recap

Highlights

Plant Construction and Systemization:

Facility construction is complete.
Systemization of the facility is underway and 71.4 percent complete. Systemization encompasses all the planning, technical work, training and testing activities required to ensure that once destruction operations start, they run safely and smoothly.
Chemical agent destruction operations are expected to start in 2019.
Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- Delivery of M60 testing rockets to main plant for equipment calibration
- Testing of Thermal Oxidizers at operating temperature
- Completion of Supercritical Water Oxidation Aluminum Precipitation System systemization test procedure

Explosive Destruction Technology (EDT)
Facility Update:

EDT operations are expected to start in 2019, using the Static Detonation Chamber (SDC).
Notable project accomplishments and highlights:
- Initial testing of the tray feed system
- Process safety review of SDC and Off-gas Treatment System
- Testing of SDC processes with inert test munitions

Upcoming Meetings

Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board
Dec. 12, 2018 at 1:30 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky University
Carl D. Perkins Building, Rooms A and B
4440 Kit Carson Dr.
Richmond, Kentucky

New to BGCAPP?

BGCAPP is a state-of-the-art facility that will safely destroy the chemical weapons stockpile currently in storage at the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Kentucky. The main plant will use neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation to destroy the nerve agent stockpile, and an Explosive Destruction Technology to destroy the mustard agent stockpile. The safety of the workforce, as well as of the neighboring communities, is the project’s most important priority.