Case Studies

In July 2020, a transformer fire occurred at a power generating station in the Midwestern United States. Over ten fire departments responded to the call to tame the blaze over multiple hours, which resulted in PFAS-containing firefighting foam being released into the environment.

A textile manufacturing company located in the southeastern part of the United States produced coated textiles using PFAS as a water and oil repellent.

ECT2 was approached by a remote refinery in Alaska that had found PFAS in their wastewater stream.

The Air Force Civil Engineering Center (AFCEC) funded a field study coupling ECT2’s SORBIX™ RePURE Regenerable Ion Exchange Resin (IX) System with Electrochemical Oxidation (EO).

Opportunity At the current time, industry regulations are in the process of changing to require all fire suppression systems using 6 and 8 carbon chain PFAS compounds to change to safer alternative [...]

Opportunity Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska experienced an unplanned release of 30,000 gallons of wastewater containing concentrated PFAS, and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center sought a system that could [...]

Opportunity In 2016, environmental investigations at the Army Aviation Centre, Oakey, identified per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in both ground and surface water. The contaminated water had migrated offsite over time [...]

Opportunity An airport located in the United States uses de-icing fluid in the winter to assist in cold weather operations. The used fluid is pumped and transported to storage lagoons and is [...]

Opportunity The former Pease Air Force Base (Pease) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA was the site for fire-training activities for the State of New Hampshire for several years. Aqueous Film Forming Foam [...]

Opportunity In Fall of 2018, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) conducted a statewide public water supply sampling program. Robinson Elementary School in Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan [...]

Opportunity In 2018 Defence completed a detailed environmental site investigation incorporating RAAF Base Tindal and private land in the vicinity of the Base. The investigation identified that PFAS contamination had entered groundwater [...]

Opportunity Extensive environmental investigations into per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination at RAAF Base Williamtown, commencing in around 2014, determined that PFAS was present in ground and surface water and was [...]

Opportunity Extensive environmental investigations at RAAF Base Williamtown commencing in 2014 identified per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in ground and surface water that migrated offsite, resulting in restrictions on the use [...]

Opportunity The historical use of aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) at RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory (NT), resulted in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) groundwater contamination of the Tindall aquifer, [...]

Project highlights and product features Client needed to upgrade two existing groundwater pump and treat systems due to lowered PFOA standard. Upgraded systems needed to reach effluent target of non-detect for Per- [...]

Project highlights and product features Side-by-side PFAS removal testing of ECT2’s Sorbix A3F resin versus a typical carbon system was conducted at a New England air base The resin outperformed GAC on [...]

Project highlights and product features Full-scale application designed to treat and reinject 80 to 100 gallons of groundwater per minute System treats a mixture of groundwater extracted from a series of plume [...]

Project highlights and product features Mobile treatment of chlorinated solvents and 1,4-dioxane at fractured bedrock remediation site in Massachusetts First synthetic media application for 1,4-dioxane in Massachusetts, placed in service in 2012 [...]

Project highlights and product features Full-scale application designed to treat groundwater from a large footprint remediation project System treats a mixture of groundwater extracted from source area and edge of plume wells [...]

Project highlights and product features Installed by ECT2’s parent company, design treats 20 to 30 gpm continuously from near saturation concentrations to ND @ at 5 ppb System has been operating since [...]

Project highlights and product features Demonstrated ability to consistently treat 1,4-dioxane to less than 0.2 µg/L detection limits or lower, meeting all current and proposed treatment standards Consistent and predictable treatment, independent [...]

Project highlights and product features In the field beta test of Dow’s AMBERSORB product on critical application Full-scale application to treat groundwater from impacted soil associated with a large thermal remediation project [...]

Project highlights and product features Alternative vapor treatment approach for 105,000-SCFM plant exhaust related to vehicle painting operations Eliminated auxiliary fuel use for emission control, a major element of attaining year 2020 CO2 emission [...]

Project highlights and product features Compact, self-contained unit for process vent application treating influent of 30,000 ppm at 2SCFH Media capacity is renewable in place using steam, regenerating to a process receiver [...]

Project highlights and product features An alternative vapor treatment approach for up to 180,000 SCFM of plant exhaust from painting operations used for military vehicles and heavy civilian/military construction equipment Minimized auxiliary [...]