US know-how agency Normal Atomics Electromagnetic Programs (GA-EMS) stated its business PERSES™ waste destruction system will likely be delivered to a Lake Elmo, Minnesota waste administration facility to reveal 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 undertaking demonstrations to destroy PFAS and PFAS contaminated waste media. The system will likely be on the Lake Elmo website for about 4 weeks after which eliminated to different websites for extra assessments beneath completely different contracts.
“Minnesota’s authorities management, in addition to states throughout the nation are actively implementing methods to remove PFAS from the setting and mitigate the hostile results these ‘endlessly chemical substances’ have on public well being and security,” stated Scott Forney, president of GA-EMS. “We’re excited to carry the destruction energy of PERSES to Lake Elmo as native, state, and federal authorities companies proceed to judge PERSES’ capabilities to remove PFAS from a myriad of waste streams. We recognize the efforts the Lake Elmo metropolis council and local people have made to assist this undertaking and sit up for a profitable demonstration program.”
In 2024, Bay West carried out testing on the GA-EMS full-scale testing facility in San Diego and offered 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 undertaking to begin 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 remedy techniques.
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 resolve the nation’s most difficult civil and navy engineering, geospatial sciences, water assets, and environmental sciences for the Military, DoD, civilian companies and for the nation’s public good.