TECHNIQUE OF LAND RECULTIVATION OF PLACES OF AMMUNITION DISPOSAL AND DESTRUCTION - Науково-технічний журнал «Техногенно-екологічна безпека»

TECHNIQUE OF LAND RECULTIVATION OF PLACES OF AMMUNITION DISPOSAL AND DESTRUCTION

Didovets Yurij

National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

DOI: 10.52363/2522-1892.2024.1.9

Keywords: land recultivation, ammunition disposal and destruction, explosion hazard, monitoring, demining, phytoremediation

Abstract

The relevance of the research and the need to develop methods that allow restoring the lands of the ammunition disposal and destruction sites during the application of measures for their recultivation are shown. The criteria for evaluating the safety level of the process of recultivation of the lands of the ammunition disposal and destruction sites based on the use of a regulatory approach and significant indicators were determined, namely: the probability of an explosion, the amount of excessive pressure in the air shock wave, and the level of degradation of the lands of the ammunition disposal and destruction sites.

For the first time the technique of land recultivation of places of ammunition disposal and destruction was developed. It includes three stages: Stage 1 – monitoring of land of places of ammunition disposal and destruction based on unmanned aviation monitoring system; Stage 2 – demining of land of ammunition disposal and destruction by specialized pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine using the results of the monitoring conducted at Stage 1; Stage 3 – biological treatment of land of the ammunition disposal and destruction using the phytoremediation method.

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