Rinsate system speeds up mustard campaign

Thanks to an innovative process not used anywhere else in the demilitarization world, the Umatilla Chemical AgentDisposal Facility (UMCDF) is expected to finish destroying the last of the mustard blisteragent stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot well ahead of the April 2012 internationaltreaty deadline.

UMCDF uses two furnaces to destroy mustard agent, a Liquid Incinerator (LIC) and a Metal Parts Furnace (MPF). The Rinsate Collection System (RCS), which went into operation last April, has allowed the LIC to do more of the work, trimming weeks off the facility’s production schedule in the process. That will potentially save the Army, and taxpayers, millions of dollars.

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