The Development of a Type B Sample Container•

Sandia National Laboratories is developing a Protective Sample Container to support chemical agent sampling requirements of the multilateral Chemical Weapons Convention. This work is sponsored by the U.S. Army Chemical Research, Development, and Engineering Center. The Protective Sample Container is designed to prevent the release of lethal chemical agents during international air transport of chemical agents by meeting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requirements for a Type B container and by incorporating features specific to the Chemical Weapons Convention such as tamper protection, interior sampling, and decontamination. The current package design includes a removable insert that can be used to support the transport of a range of sample sizes from adsorption tubes to 21 bulk samples. This package may be applicable to the analytical sampling needs of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management. This paper discusses the design and engineering development tests performed for the Protective Sample Container.