Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil

General Description Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture is commercially available as pale white, gray, yellow, or pink oil-covered prills with a petroleum odor. Non-commercially produced forms may be darker in color. It is used for blasting rock and in some types of mining. It will accelerate the burning of combustible materials.

Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) blasting agents represent the largest industrial explosive manufactured (in terms of quantity) in the United States.

For many years, ammonium nitrate fuel oil (“ANFO”) has been one of the most popular explosives for use in mining operations. ANFO compositions are formed of porous ammonium nitrate prills and...

for an inexpensive large-scale explosion is ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil, a mixture called AN/FO. For many years, ammonium nitrate mixtures have been used by the military services and the mining in- dustry for cratering and earthmoving. Ammonium nitrate alone is also used by farmers as fertilizer. DISASTERS

28-10-2021· Full Document: Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil Order. [95 KB] Regulations are current to 2021-05-04 and last amended on 2014-02-01. Previous Versions. Enabling Act: EXPLOSIVES ACT.

01-01-2017· As detonation is a coupled fluid-chemical process, flow divergence inside the detonation reaction zone can strongly influence detonation velocity and energy release. Such divergence is responsible for the diameter-effect and failure-diameter phenomena in condensed-phase explosives and particularly dominant in detonation of nonideal explosives such as

Answer (1 of 5): Because it is a) very cheap and b) easily to handle safely. And c) it is a so-called “low explosive” with a lower detonation wave speed than “high explosives" like TNT or RDX which makes it particularly useful for cracking rocks. Basically, ammonium nitrate is

Substance information for NA 0331 - Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture containing only prilled ammonium nitrate and fuel oil based on the Hazardous Materials Table (Title 49 CFR 172.101) to assist in preparing a risk assessment for loading, transporting and storing hazardous materials.

Safety Data Sheet 1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE MATERIAL AND SUPPLIER Product Name: ANFO Other name(s): Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil, ANFO 94/6 Recommended Use: Blasting explosive. Supplier: Orica Australia Pty Ltd ABN: 99 004 117 828 Street Address: 1 Nicholson Street Melbourne 3000

ANFO, ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. See explosive explosive, substance that undergoes decomposition or combustion with great rapidity, evolving much heat and producing a

Answer (1 of 5): Because it is a) very cheap and b) easily to handle safely. And c) it is a so-called “low explosive” with a lower detonation wave speed than “high explosives" like TNT or RDX which makes it particularly useful for cracking rocks. Basically, ammonium nitrate is

Full Document: Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil Order. [95 KB] Regulations are current to 2021-05-04 and last amended on 2014-02-01. Previous Versions. Enabling Act: EXPLOSIVES ACT.

Substance information for NA 0331 - Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture containing only prilled ammonium nitrate and fuel oil based on the Hazardous Materials Table (Title 49 CFR 172.101) to assist in preparing a risk assessment for loading, transporting and

explosives such as Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (ANFO). In this study, the effect of reaction zone flow di-vergence on ANFO detonation was explored through variation of the inert confinement and explosive diameter in the rate-stick geometry with cylinder expansion experiments. New tests are discussed and compared to prior experiments.

01-01-2017· As detonation is a coupled fluid-chemical process, flow divergence inside the detonation reaction zone can strongly influence detonation velocity and energy release. Such divergence is responsible for the diameter-effect and failure-diameter phenomena in condensed-phase explosives and particularly dominant in detonation of nonideal explosives such as

05-08-2020· Mixed with fuel oil it’s known as ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil), which accounts for approximately 80% of the 2.7 billion kilograms of explosives used in North America every year. In these explosive mixtures, it acts as an oxidising agent, helping other materials burn.

10-01-2016· Both ammonium nitrate/nitromethane (ANNM) mixtures and ammonium nitrate/No. 2 diesel fuel oil mixtures (ANDF) were formulated, as described in Ref. [28]. In general, mixtures were prepared by dripping fuel onto AN particles with a syringe until the required stoichiometric value was ascertained with repeated mass measurements on an

PRILLED AMMONIUM NITRATE-FUEL OIL MIXTURE BY ROBERT BARTLEY HOPLER, JR A THESIS submitted to the faculty of the SCHOOL OF MINES AND METALLURGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI in partial fulfillment of the wprk required for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MINING ENGINEERING Rolla, Missouri 1961)o\° \ \-7-' X p r:,

Anfo ( Anf in dialetto bresciano, Damphus in latino) è un comune italiano di 443 abitanti della provincia di Brescia in Lombardia, sul Lago d'Idro. Il comune appartiene alla Comunità Montana della Valle Sabbia .

Ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) is a mixture of solid ammonium nitrate and mineral oil. Easy handling allows it to be used safely in mining, stone quarrying, and tunnel construction. The basic reaction during detonation is the decomposition of the hydrocarbon and the ammonium nitrate into CO 2, nitrogen and water. For this test a mixture of NH,

01-01-2017· As detonation is a coupled fluid-chemical process, flow divergence inside the detonation reaction zone can strongly influence detonation velocity and energy release. Such divergence is responsible for the diameter-effect and failure-diameter phenomena in condensed-phase explosives and particularly dominant in detonation of nonideal explosives such as

explosives such as Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (ANFO). In this study, the effect of reaction zone flow di-vergence on ANFO detonation was explored through variation of the inert confinement and explosive diameter in the rate-stick geometry with cylinder expansion experiments. New tests are discussed and compared to prior experiments.

Substance information for NA 0331 - Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture containing only prilled ammonium nitrate and fuel oil based on the Hazardous Materials Table (Title 49 CFR 172.101) to assist in preparing a risk assessment for loading, transporting and

21-11-2021· Why did the ammonium nitrate in Lebanon explode considering it is just an oxidizer and there was no fuel (i.e., alumina or diesel)? Investigations into the matter have revealed that there wasn't just ammonium nitrate stored in there, it was revealed that Wharf 12, the one that exploded was where many types of explosive and hazardous materials are stored for

10-01-2016· Both ammonium nitrate/nitromethane (ANNM) mixtures and ammonium nitrate/No. 2 diesel fuel oil mixtures (ANDF) were formulated, as described in Ref. [28]. In general, mixtures were prepared by dripping fuel onto AN particles with a syringe until the required stoichiometric value was ascertained with repeated mass measurements on an

PRILLED AMMONIUM NITRATE-FUEL OIL MIXTURE BY ROBERT BARTLEY HOPLER, JR A THESIS submitted to the faculty of the SCHOOL OF MINES AND METALLURGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI in partial fulfillment of the wprk required for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MINING ENGINEERING Rolla, Missouri 1961)o\° \ \-7-' X p r:,

Answer (1 of 2): The purpose of the fuel oil is two fold. Mainly it’s to transmit shock, and for that, any liquid will do. A common blasting explosive is a slurry of ammonium nitrate in a watery gel, which for larger operations arrives in a tanker truck and

The ideal mixture, i.e., the oxygen-balanced mixture, consists of 3 moles of ammonium nitrate and one mole of fuel oil. Next, we should find the weight ratio of ammonium nitrate to fuel oil. For 3 moles of NH 4 NO 3 : 3*80.05 = 240.15 g. For 1 mole of CH 2: 1*14.03 = 14.03 g. The molecular weight of ANFO is, therefore: 240.15 + 14.03 = 254.18 g.

Anfo ( Anf in dialetto bresciano, Damphus in latino) è un comune italiano di 443 abitanti della provincia di Brescia in Lombardia, sul Lago d'Idro. Il comune appartiene alla Comunità Montana della Valle Sabbia .