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).