A mobile manufacturing and delivery platform that is adapted to provide in a blasthole an explosive composition comprising a liquid energetic material and sensitizing voids, the sensitizing voids being present in the liquid energetic material with a non-random distribution. The platform comprises a storage tank for the liquid energetic material; at least two delivery lines for conveying respective streams of the liquid energetic material from the storage tank; a void delivery system for producing sensitizing voids in at least one of the streams of liquid energetic material; a mixer for mixing the streams of liquid energetic material to produce the explosive composition; and a blasthole loading hose. The mixer may be provided at the end of the loading hose. A blasting method employs the platform to manufacture and deliver the explosive composition into a blasthole, which composition is subsequently detonated.

A hot-gas-generating apparatus for reacting a propellant comprises a combustion chamber, at least one injector that is arranged upstream of the combustion chamber and can be closed, on the combustion chamber side, to the propellant, electrodes being integrated in said injector, and at least one supply line for the propellant. In this context, the propellant is a monopropellant and a substantially water-free ionic solution having low vapor pressure, preferably with a residual water content of less than five percent by mass, which is capable of self-sustaining combustion at a given combustion chamber pressure, and the electrodes have at least two electrodes of opposite polarity which are suitable for electrically igniting the propellant by means of a flow of current through the propellant when this propellant flows between the opposite-polarity electrodes.

A low-cost, reliable and easy to use kit for neutralizing surface exposed landmine and unexploded ordnance for humanitarian demining is based on a liquid fuel and a solid/soluble fuel. Both fuels are premeasured in separate, sealed containers. The addition of a small quantity of solid/soluble fuel into the liquid creates an explosive. The resulting mixture is capable of detonating with a standard No. 8 blasting cap. The solid/soluble fuel can be in the form of a powder, tablet, or its saturated solution in water. The solid/soluble fuel is hexamethylenetetramine. The liquid fuel, nitromethane, is provided in premeasured quantities. User is provided instructions for choosing the appropriate quantity of liquid fuel, the corresponding solid/soluble fuel required, the method of mixing, placement and detonation of the kits. Also disclosed is a simple wooden stand to hold the bottle of explosive in place. A special fuel, liquid 2-ethylhexylnitrate, is provided to desensitize the mixed and sensitized explosive.

A method continuously produces emulsion explosive by emulsification and sensitization in a static state without a loading pump. After the water phase and oil phase enters a static emulsifier for emulsification, the emulsion enters a static sensitization device; the sensitizer enters the static sensitization device through the sensitizer charging inlet and mixes with the emulsion in the static sensitization device. After emulsification and sensitization, the sensitized explosive directly enters an injection pipe for encapsulation. By adopting the static emulsifier and sensitization device, the explosive material storage amount is greatly reduced, and mechanical stirring and shearing for emulsification is avoided. Meanwhile, mechanical mixing for sensitization is omitted and replaced with full-static high-temperature sensitization, and the safety of sensitization is improved. The loading pump is omitted, and the sensitized emulsion directly enters the injection pipe, thus the risk points in the production process and the online explosive material storage amount are reduced.

A system/apparatus including: at least one control system or control unit configured for changing a concentration/flow rate of a set of sensitizing agents for an explosive composition, wherein the sensitizing agents are introduced at or into at least one portion of an explosive composition loading system or apparatus in a manner that facilitates or enables generation of two or more explosive compositions having at least one density profile/distribution, wherein the changing of the concentration/flow rate provides the sensitizing agents with a concentration profile/distribution within and along a conduit/hose during flow of the explosive compositions toward and prior to the explosive compositions reaching a distal portion of the conduit/hose that is fluidically coupled to an outlet structure, wherein the concentration profile/distribution corresponds to the density profile/distribution.

Emulsion explosives with gas bubbles that are resistant to in-borehole migration or coalescence are disclosed herein. Such emulsions can be sensitized by mechanically-introducing gas bubbles into the emulsion. Resistance to gas bubble migration and coalescence can be achieved by homogenization, without the need for bubble stabilization agents.