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  • This invention relates to thickened aqueous gels suitable for slurry explosives, to the preparation of such gels and slurry explosives containing such gels.
  • the aqueous gels are also valuable general binding and thickening agents.
  • Explosive compositions comprising an oxygensupplying salt, for example ammonium nitrate, a solvent or carrier for the said salt, a thickener and a fuel are well known. These compositions are commonly referred to as slurry explosive compositions or, more generally, slurry explosives. Such slurry explosives may range in degree of firmness or consistency from highly viscous, plastic-like extrudable compositions to less viscous, pumpable or pourable fluid-like mixtures.
  • Slurry explosives of the aforementioned types normally contain as essential ingredients widely known power-enhancing materials and fuels such as, for example finely divided light metal or finely divided carbon.
  • power-enhancing materials and fuels such as, for example finely divided light metal or finely divided carbon.
  • a self-explosive fuel ingredient such as particulate TNT, PETN or smokeless powder to further improve the sensitivity and/or strength, thereby ensuring detonation and propagation.
  • waterbearing explosive slurry compositions wherein water comprises the greater proportion of the fluid carrier or disperser for the solid ingredients of the explosive mixture. While these water-bearing slurry explosives possess many advantages such as economy in manufacture and use and reduced hazard, they are, however, generally susceptible to the segregation of the solid and liquid ingredients, both when packaged in containers and when placed directly into a borehole. These slurry explosives are also subject to dilution by water which may be present in the borehole, which water may leach out water-soluble ingredients and result in possible detonation failure.
  • thickening or gelling agents which have been employed with varying degrees of success, either alone or in combination, in water-bearing explosive slurries.
  • macromolecular compounds containing vicinal cis-hydroxyl groups are commonly employed and these are advantageously cross-linked by cross-linking agents which attach to the cis-hydroxyl groups.
  • the most widely used of these thickening agents have been the galactomannans, particularly guar gum, and these have been cross-linked with, for example, sodium dichromate, potassium dichromate, zinc chromate or potassium antimonate.
  • These slurry explosives have not, however, been completely successful because of syneresis on storage, especially at elevated temperatures and with explosive compositions containing calcium nitrate.
  • aqueous gels suitable for slurry explosives thickened with certain cishydroxylated compounds can be prepared by crosslinking the thickener with an oxide, acid or salt of tellurium VI. Gels of a tough, rubbery consistency may thus be readily prepared.
  • an aqueous gel suitable for use in a slurry explosive composition comprises, as thickener, an aqueous solution of a macromolecular compound containing vicinal cis-hydroxyl groups cross-linked with an oxide of tellurium VI or an acid produced from the said oxide or a salt of the said acid.
  • the macromolecular thickener may conveniently comprise a galactomannan gum, a glucomannan gum, a glucoxylgalactan gum or a xylogalactan gum, for example guar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum, Ilesmannan gum, tamarind gum or psyllium seed gum.
  • the cross-linking agent is advantageously telluric oxide, telluric acid or an alkali metal salt of telluric acid, for example sodium tellurate.
  • the gel may advantageously contain at least one inorganic oxygensupplying salt.
  • a preferred aqueous gel for use in slurry explosive compositions contains from 15 to 83 parts by weight of at least one inorganic oxygen-supplying salt, from 10 to 30 parts by weight of water and from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of cross-linked cis-hydroxylated macromolecular thickener wherein the cross-linking agent is used in amounts in the range 1 to 30 percent by weight of the colloid.
  • the inorganic oxygen-supplying salt may conveniently comprise a nitrate or perchlorate of ammonia, sodium, potassium, barium, magnesium or calcium or a mixture of two or more of these compounds.
  • the gels of the invention exhibit a very high degree of tolerance to electrolytes and may be formed in saturated solutions of any of these salts or mixtures thereof.
  • the slurry explosives of the invention comprise the afore-described gel containing inorganic oxygensupplying salt with a sensitising fuel mixed therewith.
  • a sensitising fuel mixed therewith.
  • the fuel constitutes from 5 to 55 percent by weight of the explosive.
  • the fuel may be water-soluble or water-insoluble, ex plosive or non-explosive fuel.
  • Insoluble fuels conveniently comprise particulate light metal or metalloid, for example finely divided aluminium, aluminium alloy, silicon, ferrosilicon, ferrophosphorus, particulate organic explosives, sulphur or carbonaceous material.
  • Useful particulate organic explosives which may be used in the compositions include, for example, TNT, PETN, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), Composition B (mixture of TNT and RDX), Pentolite (mixture of PETN and TNT), smokeless powder, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch and mixtures of these.
  • Suitable soluble fuels comprise glycol, diethylene glycol, dioxan, methyl cellosolve, methyl carbitol, sucrose, urea or thiourea.
  • Monomeric soluble fuels should preferably not comprise compounds containing cishydroxyl groups (e.g., glycerol) since these compounds could react with the cross-linking agent.
  • compositions may also contain modifiers, for example density control agents.
  • modifiers for example density control agents.
  • a gassing agent for example sodium nitrite
  • the invention also includes a method of preparing an aqueous gel suitable for use in a slurry explosive wherein a macromolecular thickening compound containing vicinal cishydroxyl groups dissolved in water is cross-linked with an oxide of tellurium VI, or an acid produced from the said oxide, or asalt of the said acid.
  • the macromolecular compound is dispersed in a non-solvent liquid medium, for example diethylene glycol, and added to a solution of the cross-linking agent in the water which may have the inorganic oxygen-supplying salt also dissolved therein.
  • a non-solvent liquid medium for example diethylene glycol
  • the cross-linking agent may be added as such to the thickened gel composition or formed in situ in the composition, during mixing of the composition, by adding a tellurium compound containing tellurium in a low valent oxidation state and an oxidising agent to convert the tellurium to the required high oxidation state.
  • a tellurium compound containing tellurium IV and hydrogen peroxide, chromic oxide or an alkali metal dichromate, peroxide or permanganate can be added to the composition to form a cross-linking agent containing tellurium VI.
  • the cross-linking action is faster when the solution is slightly acidic s oit is advantageous to acidify the slurry
  • the aqueous gels and slurry explosives of the invention have greatly enhanced stability at elevated temperatures and over prolonged storage periods. They are stable over a range of pH values from below 4 to above and are very water-resistant.
  • Examples 10-13 These Examples were slurry explosives having the following compositions and properties shown in Table 3.
  • a mixture containing the oxygen-supplying salts water and guar gum (predispersed in the ethylene glycol) was acidified to pH 5.0 with acetic acid, heated to 50 C, and maintained thereat for about 3 hours until the guar gum had completely dissolved.
  • An aqueous solution or suspension of the telluric compound was added, followed by a blend of atomised aluminium and sensitising fuel.
  • Example 12 was sensitised by aeration with sodium nitrite which was added terminally to the mixture. In each case, after 12 hours a cross-linked rubbery gel, which was very stable and resistant to water, was produced. No syneresis was detectable after storage of the explosives compositions for 6 months at 50 C. The minimum initiator and the velocity of detonation were measured on samples TABLE 3 Example 3g pentolite pentolite pen tolite Minimum initiator in 12.5 cm
  • Example 14 Velocity of detonation Km/s in 5 cm diam .in.12.5 cm diam
  • Example 14 The composition of this Example was the same as that of Example except that the telluric acid was replaced by 0.01 parts of tellurium lV oxide and, after all the ingredients were mixed as described in Example 10, 0.007 parts of potassium permanganate were added to oxidise the tellurium IV oxide to tellurium VI oxide.
  • the properties of the explosive composition were the same as those of Example 10.
  • Example E P shaq thssams spmnqs tion n wasprspared in the same manner as Example 14 except that the oxidising agent used was 0.007 parts of sodium dichromate. The properties were the same as those of Example 10.
  • Anagueous slurry explosive composition comprising an aqueous gel,'in inorganic oxygen-supplying salt and a sensitising fuel, said gel comprising 15 to 83 parts by weight of said inorganic oxygen-supplying salt, from 10 to parts by weight of water and from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of cross-linked cis-hydroxylated macromolecular thickener wherein the crosslinking agent is used in amounts in the range 1 to 30 percent by weight of the colloid, the macro-molecular thickener being a galactomannan gum, a glucomannan gum, a glucoxylgalactan gum or a xylogalactan gum and the cross-linking agent being an oxide of tellurium VI or an acid produced from the said oxide or a salt of the said acid.
  • a slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cross-linking agent is selected from the group consisting of telluric oxide, telluric acid or an alkalirnetal salt of telluric acid.

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Slurry explosives and aqueous gels therefor containing, as thickener, a macromolecular compound containing vicinal cishydroxyl group (e.g., guar gum) cross-linked with compound of tellurium VI.

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United States Patent Craig Jan. 8, 1974 1 1 SLURRY EXPLOSIVES CROSS-LINKED [58] Field 61 Search 149/44, 60, 29, 39, WITH A COMPOUND OF TELLURIUM V1 93, 252/315. 316
[75] Inventor: gilltllzlrllldAuafl Craig, Glasgow, 56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS [73] Asslgnee' L'P F' 'Z f a s 3,728,173 4 1973 Cook et a1. 149 44 x on 3,734,864 5/1973 Craig T 149/29 X [22] Filed: Sept. 18, 1972 3,251,781 5/1966 Jordan 106/209 x 3,451,868 6/1969 Peterson 149/44 X [21] Appl. No; 289,637 3,445,305 5/1969 Lyerly 149/60 X Related US. Application Data Primary Examiner-Carl D. Quarforth [62] 13317232116215. No. 196,797, Nov. 8,1971, Pat. N01 Assistant Examiner p' A Nelson Att0rneyPaul N. Kokulis [30] Foreign Application Priority Data ABSTRACT Nov. 30, 1970 Great Britain 56694/70 Slurry exploslves and aqueous gels therefor contam- 52 us. c1 149/29 149/32 149/39 as thickele" a macmmlecula 149/41 149/42 149/43 l49/44 149/60 taining vicinal cis-hydroxyl group (e.g., guar gum) Mfg/92 149/93 149/98 149/99 cross-linked with compound of tellurium VI. [51] Int. Cl. C06d 5/06, C06d 5/10 7 Claims, No Drawings SLURRY EXPLOSIVES CROSS-LINKED WITH A COMPOUND OF TELLURIUM VI This is a division, of application Ser. No. 196,797 filed Nov. 8, 1971, now US. Pat. No. 3,734,864.
This invention relates to thickened aqueous gels suitable for slurry explosives, to the preparation of such gels and slurry explosives containing such gels. The aqueous gels are also valuable general binding and thickening agents.
Explosive compositions comprising an oxygensupplying salt, for example ammonium nitrate, a solvent or carrier for the said salt, a thickener and a fuel are well known. These compositions are commonly referred to as slurry explosive compositions or, more generally, slurry explosives. Such slurry explosives may range in degree of firmness or consistency from highly viscous, plastic-like extrudable compositions to less viscous, pumpable or pourable fluid-like mixtures.
Slurry explosives of the aforementioned types normally contain as essential ingredients widely known power-enhancing materials and fuels such as, for example finely divided light metal or finely divided carbon. In some cases it is advantageous to include in the composition a self-explosive fuel ingredient such as particulate TNT, PETN or smokeless powder to further improve the sensitivity and/or strength, thereby ensuring detonation and propagation. A wide range of such compositions is now known to the art.
Of most important commercial interest are the waterbearing explosive slurry compositions wherein water comprises the greater proportion of the fluid carrier or disperser for the solid ingredients of the explosive mixture. While these water-bearing slurry explosives possess many advantages such as economy in manufacture and use and reduced hazard, they are, however, generally susceptible to the segregation of the solid and liquid ingredients, both when packaged in containers and when placed directly into a borehole. These slurry explosives are also subject to dilution by water which may be present in the borehole, which water may leach out water-soluble ingredients and result in possible detonation failure. To overcome the problems of water attack and penetration, manufacturers of water-bearing ex- .plosive slurries have employed a wide range of thickening agents as essential components of the slurries for the purpose of cohering together the ingredients in the form of non-segregating gels which will resist attack by excess water and so overcome the aforementioned difficulties.
Many thickening or gelling agents are known which have been employed with varying degrees of success, either alone or in combination, in water-bearing explosive slurries. Thus macromolecular compounds containing vicinal cis-hydroxyl groups are commonly employed and these are advantageously cross-linked by cross-linking agents which attach to the cis-hydroxyl groups. For example, the most widely used of these thickening agents have been the galactomannans, particularly guar gum, and these have been cross-linked with, for example, sodium dichromate, potassium dichromate, zinc chromate or potassium antimonate. These slurry explosives have not, however, been completely successful because of syneresis on storage, especially at elevated temperatures and with explosive compositions containing calcium nitrate.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gel suitable for thickening aqueous slurry explosive, which gel will be stable at elevated temperatures even in the presence of calcium nitrate.
It has now been found that improved aqueous gels suitable for slurry explosives thickened with certain cishydroxylated compounds can be prepared by crosslinking the thickener with an oxide, acid or salt of tellurium VI. Gels of a tough, rubbery consistency may thus be readily prepared.
Thus, in accordance with this invention an aqueous gel suitable for use in a slurry explosive composition comprises, as thickener, an aqueous solution of a macromolecular compound containing vicinal cis-hydroxyl groups cross-linked with an oxide of tellurium VI or an acid produced from the said oxide or a salt of the said acid. The macromolecular thickener may conveniently comprise a galactomannan gum, a glucomannan gum, a glucoxylgalactan gum or a xylogalactan gum, for example guar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum, Ilesmannan gum, tamarind gum or psyllium seed gum. The cross-linking agent is advantageously telluric oxide, telluric acid or an alkali metal salt of telluric acid, for example sodium tellurate.
For use in a slurry blasting exposive the gel may advantageously contain at least one inorganic oxygensupplying salt.
A preferred aqueous gel for use in slurry explosive compositions contains from 15 to 83 parts by weight of at least one inorganic oxygen-supplying salt, from 10 to 30 parts by weight of water and from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of cross-linked cis-hydroxylated macromolecular thickener wherein the cross-linking agent is used in amounts in the range 1 to 30 percent by weight of the colloid.
The inorganic oxygen-supplying salt may conveniently comprise a nitrate or perchlorate of ammonia, sodium, potassium, barium, magnesium or calcium or a mixture of two or more of these compounds. The gels of the invention exhibit a very high degree of tolerance to electrolytes and may be formed in saturated solutions of any of these salts or mixtures thereof.
The slurry explosives of the invention comprise the afore-described gel containing inorganic oxygensupplying salt with a sensitising fuel mixed therewith. Preferably the fuel constitutes from 5 to 55 percent by weight of the explosive.
The fuel may be water-soluble or water-insoluble, ex plosive or non-explosive fuel. Insoluble fuels conveniently comprise particulate light metal or metalloid, for example finely divided aluminium, aluminium alloy, silicon, ferrosilicon, ferrophosphorus, particulate organic explosives, sulphur or carbonaceous material.
Useful particulate organic explosives which may be used in the compositions include, for example, TNT, PETN, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), Composition B (mixture of TNT and RDX), Pentolite (mixture of PETN and TNT), smokeless powder, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch and mixtures of these.
Suitable soluble fuels comprise glycol, diethylene glycol, dioxan, methyl cellosolve, methyl carbitol, sucrose, urea or thiourea. Monomeric soluble fuels should preferably not comprise compounds containing cishydroxyl groups (e.g., glycerol) since these compounds could react with the cross-linking agent.
The compositions may also contain modifiers, for example density control agents. Thus it is generally ad- 3 vantageous to incorporate a gassing agent, for example sodium nitrite, into a composition which contains no self-explosive sensitiser.
The invention also includes a method of preparing an aqueous gel suitable for use in a slurry explosive wherein a macromolecular thickening compound containing vicinal cishydroxyl groups dissolved in water is cross-linked with an oxide of tellurium VI, or an acid produced from the said oxide, or asalt of the said acid.
In one convenient method the macromolecular compound is dispersed in a non-solvent liquid medium, for example diethylene glycol, and added to a solution of the cross-linking agent in the water which may have the inorganic oxygen-supplying salt also dissolved therein. Alternatively, it is also convenient to disperse the macromolecular compound and the cross-linking agent in a non-solvent liquid medium and to add the dispersion to water or an aqueous solution of oxygen-supplying salt. A few hours after the thickener and cross-linking agent are dissolved in water the cross-linking action is complete and the solution has changed to a rubbery gel.
The cross-linking agent may be added as such to the thickened gel composition or formed in situ in the composition, during mixing of the composition, by adding a tellurium compound containing tellurium in a low valent oxidation state and an oxidising agent to convert the tellurium to the required high oxidation state. Thus, a compound containing tellurium IV and hydrogen peroxide, chromic oxide or an alkali metal dichromate, peroxide or permanganate can be added to the composition to form a cross-linking agent containing tellurium VI.
The cross-linking action is faster when the solution is slightly acidic s oit is advantageous to acidify the slurry The aqueous gels and slurry explosives of the invention have greatly enhanced stability at elevated temperatures and over prolonged storage periods. They are stable over a range of pH values from below 4 to above and are very water-resistant.
The invention is further illustrated by the following Examples in which all parts and percentages are by weight.
EXAMPLES 1-4 These Examples were aqueous gels containing guar gum cross-linked to different degrees.
In preparing these Examples, four solutions containing varying amounts of telluric acid were prepared and to these were added dispersions of guar gum in diethylene glycol. In each case a paste was initially formed but after several hours gel formation occurred to varying degrees of rigidity, as described in Table 1 linked.
' em ress TABLE 2 Example No. 5 6 7 8 9 Composition (parts) Ammonium nitrate 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 Calcium nitrate 800 800 800 800 800 Guar gum 40 40 40 40 40 Diethylene glycol 50 50 50 50 50 Water 800 800 800 800 800 Telluric acid 1 1 1 Sodium tellurate 1 Telluric oxide 1 pH 5.9 5.4 4.8 5 4 5.5
Examples 10-13 These Examples were slurry explosives having the following compositions and properties shown in Table 3. In preparing the compositions a mixture containing the oxygen-supplying salts, water and guar gum (predispersed in the ethylene glycol) was acidified to pH 5.0 with acetic acid, heated to 50 C, and maintained thereat for about 3 hours until the guar gum had completely dissolved. An aqueous solution or suspension of the telluric compound was added, followed by a blend of atomised aluminium and sensitising fuel. Example 12 was sensitised by aeration with sodium nitrite which was added terminally to the mixture. In each case, after 12 hours a cross-linked rubbery gel, which was very stable and resistant to water, was produced. No syneresis was detectable after storage of the explosives compositions for 6 months at 50 C. The minimum initiator and the velocity of detonation were measured on samples TABLE 3 Example 3g pentolite pentolite pen tolite Minimum initiator in 12.5 cm
diam
Velocity of detonation Km/s in 5 cm diam .in.12.5 cm diam Example 14 The composition of this Example was the same as that of Example except that the telluric acid was replaced by 0.01 parts of tellurium lV oxide and, after all the ingredients were mixed as described in Example 10, 0.007 parts of potassium permanganate were added to oxidise the tellurium IV oxide to tellurium VI oxide. The properties of the explosive composition were the same as those of Example 10.
Example E P shaq thssams spmnqs tion n wasprspared in the same manner as Example 14 except that the oxidising agent used was 0.007 parts of sodium dichromate. The properties were the same as those of Example 10.
What we claim is: l
l Anagueous slurry explosive composition comprising an aqueous gel,'in inorganic oxygen-supplying salt and a sensitising fuel, said gel comprising 15 to 83 parts by weight of said inorganic oxygen-supplying salt, from 10 to parts by weight of water and from 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of cross-linked cis-hydroxylated macromolecular thickener wherein the crosslinking agent is used in amounts in the range 1 to 30 percent by weight of the colloid, the macro-molecular thickener being a galactomannan gum, a glucomannan gum, a glucoxylgalactan gum or a xylogalactan gum and the cross-linking agent being an oxide of tellurium VI or an acid produced from the said oxide or a salt of the said acid.
urea, thiourea or a mixture of 2 or more of the said fuels 4. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in m! smptis na a sit ssm a 5. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the macromolecular thickener is selected from the group consisting of quar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum, Ilesmannan gum, tamarind gum and psylliurn seed gum.
6. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cross-linking agent is selected from the group consisting of telluric oxide, telluric acid or an alkalirnetal salt of telluric acid.
7. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the inorganic oxygen-supplying salt comprises a nitrate or perchlorate of ammonia, sodium, potassium, barium, magnesium or calcium or a mixture of two or more of the said compounds.

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  1. 2. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fuel constitutes from 5 to 55 percent by weight of the explosive.
  2. 3. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fuel is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, aluminum alloy, silicon, ferro-silicon, ferrophosphorus, TNT, PETN, cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine, smokeless powder, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, glycol, diethylene glycol, dioxan, methyl cellosolve, methyl carbitol, sucrose, urea, thiourea or a mixture of 2 or more of the said fuels.
  3. 4. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 comprising a density control agent.
  4. 5. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the macromolecular thickener is selected from the group consisting of quar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum, Ilesmannan gum, tamarind gum and psyllium seed gum.
  5. 6. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cross-linking agent is selected from the group consisting of telluric oxide, telluric acid or an alkali metal salt of telluric acid.
  6. 7. A slurry explosive composition as claimed in claim 1 wherein the inorganic oxygen-supplying salt comprises a nitrate or perchlorate of ammonia, sodium, potassium, barium, magnesium or calcium or a mixture of two or more of the said compounds.
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