INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Non-detonating chemical mixture for non-invasive methods of rock breaking
- 1 Blasting Center, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Mining and Geology, Serbia
Abstract
Within the Innovation Project of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, researchers of Blasting Center at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mining and Geology have developed several different non-detonating chemical mixtures for non-invasive methods of rock breaking. Laboratory and polygon tests gave the satisfactory results and knowledge enough to start the practical experiments in the field. The basis of this innovation is a theoretical assumption that certain chemical mixtures release a large quantity of gases during combustion. If these gases are found in the enclosed space a growing pressure on the walls of the chamber in which combustion takes place will be resulted. If this space is a borehole with good stemming, the rising pressure should be sufficient to break the rock material in which the borehole was drilled. Chemical mixtures developed through the research do not detonate. They represent the generators of borehole pressure made up of oxidants and fuels and the modifiers to adjust the speed of combustion and ignition temperatures. Rock breaking occurs because of progressive increase in pressure. Non-detonating chemical mixtures can be applied in road and railroad construction, demolition works, secondary breaking, rock breaking for foundation, trenching and similar civil construction operations especially in urban areas as well as quarrying of dimension stones. In other words, for different methods of rock breaking where negative effects of blasting should be avoided.
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