Environmental Services

Chem Demil Operations Task Overviews

• Under subcontract to Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) in support of the Non-Stockpile Systems Contract (NSSC) with the Product Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel (PMNSCM), GEOMET designed, developed and fielded several systems for the collection and sampling of chemical agent compounds, including an automated sampling system for the continuous operation of Depot Ambient Air Monitoring System (DAAMS) and a novel bubbler sampling method for the collection and analyses of the chemical agent Lewisite. The initial design and development of these systems were conducted in GEOMET's Laboratory facility. The sampling and monitoring equipment were then fielded at the NSSC sites operating in Utah. GEOMET performed a complete Class II Precision and Accuracy Study on the Lewisite bubbler method before fielding the system.
  
• GEOMET has contracted with numerous industrial-based clients for the testing and evaluation of chemical agent detector systems. One of the most recent activities included the testing of the Joint Chemical Agent Detector System (JCADS) developed by BAE Systems for DOD.
  
• GEOMET personnel are fully trained and certified in the operation and maintenance of most standard chemical agent monitoring and detection systems, including MINICAMS, DAAMS, ICADS, CAMS, Viking GC/MS, Dynatherm, and various other instrument and equipment items. This experience has been used in support of demil operations associated with the Munitions Management Device Version 1 (MMD-1) in Dugway, UT and the Rapid Response System (RRS) in Tooele, Utah.

• GEOMET has operated monitoring and analytical equipment at various field sites. GEOMET's chemists and air monitoring specialists are experienced in the operation and maintenance of monitoring and analytical instrumentation and equipment used in the identification and detection of chemical warfare agents. In the course of these laboratory operations, GEOMET personnel have performed troubleshooting of problems and failures associated with such equipment and routinely apply "lessons learned" from this experience to investigate and analyze problems with similar monitoring equipment used at the various chemical agent demil facilities.
  
• GEOMET has prepared and verified chemical agent standards for use in the calibration and operation of monitoring and analytical equipment used within our fixed site laboratory facility, as well as prepared, verified and delivered dilute chemical agent standards for use in approved mobile laboratory operations. In situations where chemical agent standards cannot be used, GEOMET has developed a series of surrogate chemical agents standards for use in the calibration of analytical instrumentation and monitoring equipment for the detection of HD and L agents.
  
• GEOMET has sampled for and analyzed solid, liquid, and gaseous effluents from demilitarization facilities for chemical agents and for industrial chemicals and pollutants. In support of this work, GEOMET developed analytical methods for the detection of chemical agents and the CWC Schedule 2 degradation products in various waste matrixes associated with demil operations.

• GEOMET has provided on-site chemical agent monitoring and analyses, air monitoring and waste analysis under contract to Kobe Steel International in support of the destruction of recovered chemical weapons processed in Haikido, Japan. In support of this work, GEOMET provided a mobile analytical laboratory and personnel to set up and operate all necessary equipment and instrumentation to perform air monitoring and chemical agent analysis in support of operations to dispose of the abandoned chemical weapons. The laboratory was approved by the U.S. Army for use in field operations and on-site analysis involving chemical warfare materials. GEOMET shipped all equipment, including the mobile analytical laboratory, to Japan for the on-site operational support and coordinated the assignment of on-site personnel to set up and operate an air monitoring system to continuously measure agent concentration at six designated locations. GEOMET also set up and operated a mobile analytical laboratory to analyze solid and liquid process and waste samples during and after destruction for presence of mustard and lewisite.

Mobile & Fixed Site Support