Leachate is a mixture of many different substances and often contains significant amounts of organic matter, which makes it difficult to use traditional methods of separating PFAS like activated carbon and ion exchange. However, technological developments in recent years, including the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's ‘PFASinator’ project, have made it possible to remove PFAS from leachate.
Leachate is a mixture of many different substances and often contains significant amounts of organic matter, which makes it difficult to use traditional methods of separating PFAS like activated carbon and ion exchange. However, technological developments in recent years, including the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's ‘PFASinator’ project, have made it possible to remove PFAS from leachate.
Leachate is a mixture of many different substances and often contains significant amounts of organic matter, which makes it difficult to use traditional methods of separating PFAS like activated carbon and ion exchange. However, technological developments in recent years, including the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's ‘PFASinator’ project, have made it possible to remove PFAS from leachate.
Historic PFAS contamination required a pump-and-treat solution for PFAS remediation of site groundwater. This project coupled ECT2's FOAM-X foam fractionation technology with a PFAS-destruction technology to successfully treat water to non-detect.
Airports worldwide are tackling the critical environmental issue of PFAS contamination, primarily caused by the prolonged use of AFFF firefighting foams. With new regulatory pressures, airports are adopting rigorous testing and remediation methods. In this blog, we'll share details of a major Scandinavian airport's success with their comprehensive remediation project for PFAS.
In 2024, ECT2's team of experts were brought in following an incidental release of crude oil at an oil refinery in Washington State. Read more about the PFAS treatment solutions applied to reduce PFAS to non-detect from crude oil and AFFF release.
At ECT2, we've been remediating PFAS since before most people knew how to spell it. After successful treatment of PFAS-contaminated water for over seven years, our team has developed a solution to tackle another PFAS challenge – cleaning the piping and equipment containing Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) and transitioning it to fluorine-free foams.
Since 2018, ECT2 has been at the forefront of PFAS cleanup efforts for the U.S. Department of Defense. Our treatment technologies, from single-use resin to foam fractionation, have been applied at military bases nationwide with a focus on sustainability.
In June 2024, The Naples Airport Authority retained ECT2 to support the transition of their ARFF vehicles. This process included removing the PFAS from the fire trucks, concentrating the waste volume, and containerizing it for offsite disposal to prevent any release of PFAS into the environment.
PFAS was detected in wells that supplied drinking water to the Portsmouth, NH community. Read this case study to learn about how this project started as a pilot study to compare technologies and later moved into a full-scale treatment system utilizing ECT2's single-use resin.
