Manufacture of the Futuristic Castable Type of Screening Smoke Composition

Abstract

The present trend abroad is to replace conventional smoke compositions with castable type of smoke compositions because of superior performance of the latter over the former. The technology of castable screening smokes has been recently developed for the first time in India by the Explosives Research & Development Laboratory, Pune. This paper discusses the various advantages in large scale manufacture of castable type of screening smoke composition. A comparison is also made with the conventional method of manufacture of screening smoke composition currently followed.