DE4121133

The description relates to a plant and process for incinerating explosives. In the process, the explosives are burned in a incineration reactor (1) in which the gaseous reaction products (flue gases) thus produced are mixed with fresh or make-up air (5), cooled by this mixing process and then discharged from the incineration reactor (1). In order to improve the thermo-energetic efficiency of the above process, the gas mixture (2) discharged from the incineration reactor is taken to the combustion chamber (3) of a fuel (4) burning plant (11). To this end, the plant for incinerating explosives of the invention comprises an incineration reactor (1) in which the explosives (13) are burned with the generation of flue gas which, as described above, is mixed with fresh or make-up air (5) and then discharged from the incineration reactor (1) via gas pipes. In order to make use of the considerable thermal energy for the gas mixture (2) discharged from the incineration reactor (1), the latter is connected via its exhaust gas pipes to a fuel (4) burning plant (11).