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The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels, Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants (Fuels and Oxidizers) in Azerbaijan

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang P. W. Spyra

    1. Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

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  2. Kay Winkelmann

    1. Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 162)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The NATO Partnership for Peace Trust Fund: The Process and the Role of the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA)

    • Steve Brown
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Evolution of Risk in the 1990’s

    • Wolfgang Spyra
    Pages 11-17

  4. Weapon Systems Using Samine, Melanj and Isopropyl Nitrate

    • Vugar Gafarov
    Pages 19-23

  5. Chemical Composition of Rocket Fuel Components: Melanj, Samine and Isonite

    • Elnur Mammedov
    Pages 25-31

  6. Toxicology of Military Hazardous Waste—Liquid Rocket Fuels

    • Wolfgang Spyra
    Pages 33-51

  7. Location of Liquid Missile Propellant Depots in Azerbaijan, Recent Storage Stituation, and Risk Assessment

    • Kay Winkelmann
    Pages 53-72

  8. Disposal of Rocket Fuels Stored at Alyat and Mingechevir Depots, Azerbaijan

    • W. Chris King
    Pages 73-83

  9. Past Experience in the Treatment of Rocket Fuel Components and Their Industrial Flows

    • Koray Balkaya, Alexander Medvedsky, Alexander Emelyanov
    Pages 85-88

  10. Transforming Liquid Rocket Fuel Components into Useful Products: Experience in Georgia

    • Avtandil Dolidze
    Pages 89-97

  11. Support to Partnership for Peace Trust Fund Projects by the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) the Project in Moldova to Destroy Melanj Rocket Fuel Oxidiser

    • Steve Brown
    Pages 99-104

  12. Opportunities for Technolithic Transformation of Liquid Rocket Fuels

    • Nariman Javadov
    Pages 105-108

  13. Potential Danger of Stored Rocket Fuel Components and Rational Ways of Eliminating Their Threat to the Population and the Environment

    • Fuad Abdullayev
    Pages 109-115

  14. Transportation of General Rocket Fuel Components

    • Safar Safarov
    Pages 117-124

  15. Chemistry and Alternative Usage of Missile Propellants Stored in Azerbaijan

    • A. Murat Gizir, Nermin Simsek Kus, Recep Ozen
    Pages 125-133

  16. Transformation and Cooperation: Cultural Impressions of Azerbaijan

    • Katherine C. Fischer
    Pages 135-142

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 143-148
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About this book

Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Spyra Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany The demilitarization and conversion of military properties wor- wide has been a topic of growing importance since the end of the Cold War. The slowing of the arms race brought on by weapons treaties and relaxed tensions between NATO and Warsaw Pact nations caused sto- piles of conventional weapons to become superfluous. The need to process and dispose of such weapons began more quickly in NATO countries. This demilitarization process began shortly after the reunification of Germany and was largely completed by the mid to late 1990’s. The remaining process, no small task in itself, of converting lands formerly used by the military into safe and environmentally acceptable landscapes may continue for decades to come. Due to a lack of resources and technology, the process of demilitarization in the former Warsaw Pact countries has launched more slowly. In 2002 both Georgia and Moldova finished projects which destroyed their stocks of liquid ballistic missile components. Both these projects were carried out through the cooperative support of trans-national organizations, private contractors, and research institutions. The Republic of Azerbaijan now finds itself at the beginning of its demilitarization process. Stored at the country’s military depots are over 2000 tons of missile fuels, oxidizer, and chemical additives. This hazardous waste is kept in tanks intended only for temporary transport and storage.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

    Wolfgang P. W. Spyra, Kay Winkelmann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels, Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants (Fuels and Oxidizers) in Azerbaijan

  • Editors: Wolfgang P. W. Spyra, Kay Winkelmann

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2381-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2379-8Published: 01 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2380-4Published: 01 September 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2381-1Published: 04 January 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2609

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 148

  • Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology

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