EVALUATION OF ECOTOXICITY OF PRODUCTS OF EXPLOSION OF INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSIVES
Since the emergence of industry in our world, as an integral part of progress, not enough time is devoted to the environmental aspects of the functioning of any industry, and sometimes this aspects are ignored. Due to insufficient knowledge of the ecological component of any branch of production or mining, the sustainable development of mankind is under threat. The main objective of this work is to describe and analyze some computational approaches to assessing the ecotoxicity of gaseous explosion products obtained by detonating ammonium nitrate explosives. With a deep analysis of the existing calculation methods for assessing the ecotoxicity of gaseous explosion products, it becomes clear that such calculation methods are based on an approximate estimate and may not always be objectively reliable. In the course of the work, an analysis of the existing problem is given from an environmental point of view, the mechanisms and features of the formation of toxic explosion products, which scientists encountered when developing calculation methods for determining the gaseous composition of explosion products, are described. The results of calculations of software systems "Real" and "Shock and Detonation" are analyzed in comparison with experimental data. It is shown that the calculation methods cannot be used for a full-fledged calculation of the qualitative and quantitative composition of the explosion products, and need to be improved.