Over the years, in order to improve performance and storage stability of detonation of emulsion explosives, and other people in the formulation of emulsion explosives, sensitizer and equipment of various aspects of the research.
Density adjustment is one of the key production of emulsion explosives operational aspects, the choice of density modifiers directly affects the detonation performance and storage stability of emulsion explosives.At present, more commonly used emulsion explosive density modifiers of chemical blowing agent and expanded perlite, the disadvantage of the former is difficult to control the density of explosives, short shelf life, and there aftereffect; the latter vulnerable to its size disadvantage is explosive, strength and limit oil resistance, low detonation performance, short shelf life.The introduction of hollow glass microspheres in the emulsion explosives, to overcome the above drawbacks, greatly improving the performance of explosive detonation and significantly improved storage stability. In other countries, like the United States, Britain, Sweden and Japan and other countries has been the use of hollow glass microspheres as emulsion explosive density modifiers.However, due to expensive imported glass beads in the country has been unable to universal. With the advent of homemade beads, the current domestic production of emulsion explosives plant has been gradually promoting the use of hollow glass beads.In order to increase the detonation sensitivity of the emulsion base, people have proposed adding explosive class sensitizing agents and other organic amine nitrate sensitizer.