Functional Sample of the Portable Device for Fast Analysis of Explosives

The construction of original functional sample of the portable device for fast analysis of energetic materials has been described in the paper. The portable device consisting of two parts – an original miniaturized microcolumn liquid chromatograph and a unique chemiluminescence detector – has been proposed and realized. In a very short time, this portable device is capable of identifying selectively most of military nitramine- and nitroesterbased explosives as well as inorganic nitrates occurring in trace concentrations in water or in soil. The total time required for the identification of extracts is shorter than 8 minutes.

• A. Bumbová
• J. Kellner
• Z. Večeřa
• V. Kahle
• J. Navrátil

• Chemiluminescence
• microcolumn liquid chromatograph
• nitramines
• nitroesters
• portable device.

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