R. Meyer J. Köhler A. Homburg Explosives

Triethyleneglycol Dinitrate
molecular weight: 240.1
energy of formation: –598.9 kcal/kg = –2505.8 kJ/kg
enthalpy of formation: –626.0 kcal/kg = –2619.2 kJ/kg
oxygen balance: –66.7%
nitrogen content: 11.67%
volume of explosion gases: 1065 l/kg
heat of explosion
(H2O liq.): 793 kcal/kg = 3317 k/kg
specific energy:
91.7 mt/kg = 899 kJ/kg
density: 1.335 g/cm3 lead block test: 320 cm3 /10 g
deflagration point: 195 °C = 383 °F
impact sensitivity: 1.3 kp m = 12.7 N m
Triglycol dinitrate is less volatile than W Diethylenglycol Dinitrate. It
gelatinizes nitrocellulose just as well as diglycol dinitrate, i.e., better
than nitroglycerine.
Its chemical stability is better than that of nitroglycerine or nitrocellulose,
and at least as good as that of diglycol dinitrate.
Triglycol dinitrate is prepared by nitration of triglycol with mixed acid.
The solubility of triglycol dinitrate in the waste acid is very high (~9%).
It is particularly suited for the production of low caloric W Double Base
Propellants.
Specifications
density 20/4: 1.1230–
1.1234 g/cm 3
boiling analysis,
start: not below 280 °C = 536 °F
90 % distilled: not over 295 °C = 563 °F
moisture: not more than 0.5 %
chlorides: not more than traces
acid, as H2SO4: not more than
saponification value,
0.02 %
as Na2O: not more than
reducing matter
0.05 %
(AgNO3-NH3-test): none
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