Battelle’s PFAS Annihilator Victorious Over ‘Forever Chemicals’

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.

“The end product is inert salts and PFAS-free water,” Dindal says, summing up the results of a recent customer engagement 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.

“It really is about state, federal, government, commercial, industry, nonprofits like Battelle working together that we’re going to achieve a success,” Dindal says.

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