energetic material

  One of the widely used high-energy materials for rock blasting is ANFO. Its high gaseous energy and heat energy released upon detonation has made it one of the most preferred explosives by the blasting crews and mining industries. However, the rising costs of AN, and Diesel Oil are pinching the user mining industries to look for other explosives similar to ANFO. Thus some alternatives are either worked out or are in the process of working out. This video is on this subject. The derivatives of ANFO that have reached near success to cots and quality are HANFO, WRANFO, ANVO, and CANFO.

One of the curious researchers and user of ANFO asked a very interesting question. His question is - is it viable to replace AN with CAN in standard ANFO formulation? The second part of his question is - what is its impact on performance/Fuel (diesel) absorption in case of grinding CAN & Caking in storage? My responses to your queries are as follows Ammonium nitrate has its own different forms such as the AN, LDAN, HDAN, PPAN, UAN, CAN, and so on. Many different products are manufactured from these variants of AN. The newer products manufactured are available in the forms of ANFO, HANFO, and LDSME. Also there are products like ANVO where the fuel oil is vegetable oil. We shall discuss some of the aspects of the ANFO nad our discussion will restrict to the question or ruery raised by one of the curious and innovation mind. His question is – is CANFO as good as the ANFO. Let u see.   [1] ANFO is a straight jacket product. Any change in the input materials (AN and Fuel Oil) will make