Pre- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that are common in the environment. There are 14,000-plus of these harmful constituents within the environment that don’t easily degrade. Many are found in specific types of industrial manufacturing. Unfortunately, the characteristics that make them useful such as food packing, water resistant clothing and firefighting foam are the reason they persist in the environment. PFAS also dissolve in water, and combined with their chemical properties, create a challenge for water and wastewater treatment technologies to effectively remove these harmful constituents.
Aqua-Aerobic Systems has completed extensive development and testing since 2019 in the removal of PFAS with the new AquaPRS PFAS removal system. The system consists of a unique separator technology and exclusive, carbon-based sorbent that is up to 600 times smaller than ion-exchange resin or granular activated carbon and 30 times that of powder activated carbon.
The AquaPRS system offers a viable alternative to existing PFAS technologies that can address military remediation applications, industrial discharges and new/future drinking water and wastewater regulatory requirements. The technology significantly reduces sorbent requirements, which reduces disposal costs to facilitate ultimate removal of PFAS from the environment. The sorption technology can be coupled with pretreatment technologies, such as clarification or filtration depending on the nature of the drinking water or waste streams. Drinking water is produced from high quality, particulate free effluent. In-plant reclamation or remediation efforts can also be attained due to the reduction of in-plant water demands.
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