US know-how agency Common Atomics Electromagnetic Programs (GA-EMS) mentioned its business PERSES™ waste destruction system can be delivered to a Lake Elmo, Minnesota waste administration facility to exhibit the system’s industrial-scale capabilities to destroy quite a lot of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) waste streams.
GA-EMS was awarded a contract by Bay West LLC, an environmental and remediation firm main the analysis program funded by the US Military Engineer Analysis and Improvement Centre (ERDC) to ship, set up, and function PERSES for a number of venture demonstrations to destroy PFAS and PFAS contaminated waste media. The system can be on the Lake Elmo website for about 4 weeks after which eliminated to different websites for added exams below completely different contracts.
“Minnesota’s authorities management, in addition to states throughout the nation are actively implementing methods to eradicate PFAS from the surroundings and mitigate the hostile results these ‘without end chemical substances’ have on public well being and security,” mentioned Scott Forney, president of GA-EMS. “We’re excited to deliver the destruction energy of PERSES to Lake Elmo as native, state, and federal authorities companies proceed to guage PERSES’ capabilities to eradicate PFAS from a myriad of waste streams. We admire the efforts the Lake Elmo metropolis council and area people have made to assist this venture and sit up for a profitable demonstration program.”
In 2024, Bay West performed testing on the GA-EMS full-scale testing facility in San Diego and supplied ERDC outcomes evaluation to confirm PERSES 99.99% and higher PFAS destruction effectivity in quite a lot of waste media from each authorities and business equipped sources. The supply of PERSES to the Lake Elmo facility is the following step within the venture to start on-site, industrial-scale destruction of PFAS and different natural waste in media together with Aqueous Movie-Forming Foam (AFFF), landfill leachate, biosolid “sludge”, soils and sediment, and granular activated carbon (GAC) and resin beads from filtration therapy programs.
Bay West, LLC, a nationally acknowledged environmental consulting and remediation firm headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, offers options to authorities and business enterprises to navigate advanced environmental issues and ongoing remediation challenges. ERDC is an integral part of the Workplace of the Assistant Secretary of Protection for Analysis and Engineering and helps clear up the nation’s most difficult civil and army engineering, geospatial sciences, water assets, and environmental sciences for the Military, DoD, civilian companies and for the nation’s public good.
