RKS FEED

The RKS Feed takes the cryofractured debris from the separation conveyor that contains large amounts of energetics, such as the Overlay/Kill Mechanism (O/KM), and transports it to a small press, which further fractures it so that the 23 grams of COMP A5 per mine is accessed for deactivation in the RKS APE-1236 furnace.

The system comprises the following items:

a) Separation Conveyor – The debris discharged from the cryofracture press is passed through a vibratory separation conveyor.

b) Overhead Conveyor – An overhead conveyor transports the energetics from the press discharge in shuttle boxes to the Positive Feed system, which then feeds the accessed energetics to the Rotary Kiln System.

Shuttle Box Each station has a stabilizer

Empty Shuttle Box O/KMs fractured in Shuttle Box

c) PFS – The Positive Feed System puts the accessed COMP A5 and the metal O/KM debris into the APE-1236 Rotary Kiln System for deactivation and destruction.

d) RKS – The APE-1236 Rotary Kiln System deactivates and destroys the accessed O/KMs containing the Comp A5. The deactivated metal is discharged at the end of the kiln into barrels for metal recycling/reclamation.

Refurbishing APE-1236 RKS RKS Online

RKS Burner at Full Power RKS Operating at Design Parameters

RKS Burner end – view from stack

e) RKS FEED – Of course the APE-1236 RKS can accept non-cryofractured munition feed from a belt conveyor. Most recently the APE-1236 RKS processed 20mm HEI rounds with projectile and cartridge.

20mm HEI rounds processed by APE-1236 RKS