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The Projectile Wash Out Facility is US Army Ammunition Peculiar
Equipment (APE 1300). It is a pilot scale wash out facility that
uses high pressure water and steam to washout and demil projectiles
as large as 8 inch HE filled M106 projectiles. An APE 1300
production scale facility, identical to Picatinny's equipment, is
located at Bluegrass Army Depot. In addition to the Projectile Wash
Out Facility, there is a Pink Water Treatment Facility. The pink
water treatment equipment is utilized to process all contaminated
water wastes from the 200, 600 and 800 Areas at Picatinny.
The Autoclave Demil System was designed and developed by ARDEC. A
large scale autoclave system was designed, built and installed
based on the ARDEC design and was used to reclaim approximately
10.5 million pounds of TNT which was later used in the production
of new bombs for the Air Force. The fully functional prototype
system can be used to demil 60mm, 81mm, 120mm, and 155mm
projectiles. The system is also used to demil projectiles received
from onsite EOD personnel. This includes foreign munitions recently
removed from Southwest Asia. Projectiles demilled in the autoclave
are sent to Bldg 800 to be thermally decontaminated to 5X status.
Explosives drained from the projectiles are captured in a 25-gallon
Melt Kettle where the composition of the material can be analyzed
utilizing Near Infrared (NIR) Compositional Analysis System.