Battelle is the latest organization to battle per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals, using supercritical water oxidation technology to fight the contaminants. And its solution may have the boldest name yet: the PFAS Annihilator. PFAS, or so-called forever chemicals, persist in the environment. They’ve been found in water, air, fish, and soil at locations around the globe and linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals. But Battelle says its technology will make it difficult to keep calling them “forever” chemicals, says Amy Dindal, PFAS program manager for Battelle, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. “The end product is inert salts and PFAS-free water,” Dindal says, summing up the results of a recent pilot demonstration project at a wastewater treatment facility in Michigan. There, a mobile Annihilator was used to “safely and completely destroy” PFAS in contaminated water at a plant operated by Heritage-Crystal Clean.
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