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Smoldering treatment of PFAS: Investigation of mass balance and volumetric scale up for field implementatio
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8 Jul 2025 | ACS Omega
Engineers have conducted a proof-of-concept study to show that a self-sustaining “smoldering” treatment, enhanced with calcium oxide, can scale from lab columns to 10 m³ soil piles and destroy >99.9 % of PFAS while trapping the released fluorine as benign calcium fluoride, pointing to an energy-efficient, potentially field-ready solution for cleaning contaminated fire-training sites.
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Characterization of PFAS Residuals: A Case Study on PFAS Content in a Firefighting Foam Delivery System of an Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Vehicle
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24 Dec 2024 | Chemosphere
Residual PFAS contamination in firefighting foam systems, even after rinsing, highlights the need for targeted replacement of critical components as brass and rubber parts retain the highest contamination levels.
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Pentagon seeking to incinerate 'forever chemicals' at plant on Ohio River
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21 Nov 2024 | WTAE
The East Liverpool site is one of two incinerators nationwide where the Pentagon is hoping to ship thousands of pounds of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals.
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The Fate of Fluorine Post Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Destruction during the Thermal Treatment of Biosolids: A Thermodynamic Study
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15 Jul 2024 | Energies
PFAS found in biosolids can be partially destroyed and converted to smaller compounds during thermal treatment, with factors like feedstock composition and the addition of minerals significantly affecting the emission and capture of fluorine compounds, offering insights for optimizing thermal treatment processes.
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PFAS firefighting foam is collected in Ohio for proper disposal
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20 Jun 2024 | wtap
“Depending on how you get rid of it if you use landfills you have a chance of sewer or water contamination, if you use incineration without using the proper method you have air contamination. So, the process they’ve come up with eliminates the hazards on one of those forever chemicals,” said Marietta Fire Chief, C.W. Durham.
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Current understanding on the transformation and fate of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances before, during, and after thermal treatment of biosolids
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24 May 2024 | J. Chem. Eng.
Thermal treatment methods like incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification can potentially destroy PFAS in biosolids, but optimizing treatment conditions and understanding the complete process remains challenging.
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Distribution of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in a Waste-to-Energy Plant - Tracking PFASs in Internal Residual Streams
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30 Apr 2024 | ES&T
PFAS were detected in all Waste-to-Energy plant residues except for boiler ash, with wet flue gas treatment reducing PFAS levels by 35% ± 10%, indicating that there is still a need for a safe disposal method of products containing PFAS.
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Competition to destroy ‘forever chemicals’ heats up
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4 Mar 2024 | Britt E. Erickson
Cleantech start-ups vie for a piece of the PFAS destruction market.
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EPA Proposes New Set of Rules to Regulate PFAS Under RCRA
Policy
15 Feb 2024
The U.S. EPA proposed two regulations that would add nine PFAS to the list of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act "hazardous constituents" and broaden the definition of "hazardous waste" applicable to corrective action at waste facilities, which taken together, would significantly enhance EPA's authority to regulate PFAS.
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[Report] Guide to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sampling within Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration
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8 Feb 2024 | USGS
This guide aims to provide fundamental concepts and considerations involved with environmental sampling for PFAS during site assessments.
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[Opinion] The Need to Include a Fluorine Mass Balance in the Development of Effective Technologies for PFAS Destruction
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5 Feb 2024 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Emerging technologies aimed at destroying PFAS in the environment pose challenges due to the potential formation of unintended transformation products, emphasizing the need for comprehensive monitoring methods and a unified terminology in PFAS destruction research.
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NEWMOA Releases First-of-its-kind PFAS Regional Draft Model Legislation for Public Comment
Policy
16 Jun 2023
The Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association recently published a draft model legislation that aims to provide a comprehensive framework for addressing the production, sale, and disposal of products containing PFAS.
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Smouldering to treat PFAS in sewage sludge
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25 Apr 2023 | Waste Manage.
Smoldering combustion completely removed all 4-8 carbon chain length PFAS from sewage sludge under all conditions, though extremely high temperatures and the addition of CaO were needed to mineralize the PFAS completely.
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Destroying ‘Forever Chemicals’ is a Technological Race that Could Become a Multibillion-dollar Industry
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6 Feb 2023 | Inside Climate News
How do you destroy pollution so stubborn, it’s nicknamed ‘forever chemicals’? That’s a question researchers and companies across the country are eager to answer, as regulation tightens on PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and the chemicals’ producers face a mountain of lawsuits.
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Occurrence and removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in leachates from incineration plants: A full-scale study
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2 Dec 2022 | Chemosphere
Using biological treatment and membrane filtration effectively moved over 95% of PFAS from the leachates from incineration plants, with physical entrapment, not biodegradation, as the main means of PFAS reduction.