Hugoniot and properties of diesel fuel used in ANFO

Abstract

One of the more common ammonium nitrate(AN)-based explosives is ANFO, which is a mixture of AN prills and diesel fuel oil (FO) in a 94:6 ratio by weight. Since there are no available shock data on FO, a series of shock compression experiments have been completed using a two-stage light gas gun with a sealed liquid target cell. The FO studied was diesel #2 which has been used in a number of ANFO explosive shots. Density and sound speed data were measured and used to predict and compare the data to a universal liquid Hugoniot (ULH). In-situ magnetic gauges in the target cell were used to measure the particle velocity, shock velocity, and shock wave profiles. Projectile impact velocities ranged from 1.5 to 3.2 km/s, generating input pressures to the FO between 3 and 17 GPa (depending on the impactor material being used). No shock-induced reaction was observed in the FO in any of the experiments. Since the ULH was found to slightly under predict the FO Hugoniot states, a linear Hugoniot was fit to the data - Us = 1.775 + 1.725 up - in mm/μs. A Helmholtz EOS based on the Murnaghan isotherm was developed so the temperature on the Hugoniot could be estimated. At 12 GPa the shock temperature is expected to be 1500K.