Design of a process line for Nitrocellulose-based gunpowder

dc.contributor.author	Gawera, Habyesali
dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-01T14:24:30Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-01T14:24:30Z
dc.date.issued	2019-06
dc.description	A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry of Makerere University	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The manufacture of nitrocellulose-based gunpowder involves the following unit operations and processes; raw material storage and feed preparation, Nitration, centrifugation, drowning, boiling, pulping, poaching, screening and blending, centrifugation, dehydration, mixing, pressing, solvent recovery and hardening. In this study, designing a process line for nitrocellulose-based gunpowder was done. This was illustrated using block, process flow and piping and instrumentation diagrams. Nitrocellulose with a low degree of nitration is applied in paints, lacquers, varnishes, inks and others while that with a high degree of nitration (>12.5%) is used in explosives.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/8568
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Makerere University	en_US
dc.subject	Nitrocellulose-based gunpowder	en_US
dc.title	Design of a process line for Nitrocellulose-based gunpowder	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US