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PFAS Qualifications & Capabilities

  • Per-fluorinated chemicals, commonly known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) or PFO (perfluorooctanoate sulfonate) are among the top subject matters for water resource managers and other industry professionals.
  • They are part of a larger range of persistent industrial chemicals – non-polymer and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), nicknamed “forever chemicals”.
  • PFOA and PFOS are the two PFAS’s that have been produced in the largest amounts within the United States.
  • Used to make carpets, clothing, fabrics for furniture, paper packaging for food and other materials (e.g., cookware) that are resistant to water, grease or stains.
  • Used for firefighting at airfields and in a number of industrial processes.
  • Scientists have found PFOA and PFOS in the blood of nearly all the people they tested.

Activated Carbon – One handful of carbon has the surface area of a football field in the internal pore structure.

Ion Exchange (IX) Resin – IX resins are used to remove dilute solutions and concentrate the ions into a relatively small volume.

  • Activated carbon is commonly used to adsorb natural organic compounds, taste and odor compounds, and synthetic organic chemicals.
  • Adsorption is both the physical and chemical process of accumulating a substance at the interface between liquid and solids phases.
  • Not all Activated Carbons are the same when it comes to removal of PFASs!
  • Ion Exchange is between a solid substance (called a resin) and an aqueous solution.
  • Single pass resin is most common for PFAS applications ‒ Resin is not regenerated but incinerated at the end of service cycle
Encotech / CSEC has years of experience on various federal, state, municipal, and privately owned sites currently dealing with PFAS contamination.

These include:

  • Military Installations
  • Federal Facilities
  • Municipal Drinking Water Facilities
  • Brownfield Sites
  • Construction Sites
Encotech / CSEC has years of experience on various federal, state, municipal, and privately owned sites currently dealing with PFAS contamination.
These include:
  • Temporary Dewatering installations for construction activities.
  • Groundwater Clean-Up
  • Residential & Small Scale Point of Entry Treatment (POET)
  • Drinking Water Pre-Treatment

Encotech / CSEC also has years of experience performing non-hazardous and hazardous spent carbon / media changeouts including reactivation, incineration, and/or disposal of the spent carbon and media.

These include:

  • Bulk Slurry Exchanges
  • Vacuum Extraction and Onsite Repackaging
  • Spent Carbon Reactivation
  • Spent Carbon/Media Disposal
  • Spent Carbon / Media Incineration
Encotech / CSEC’s Quality Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), Ion Exchange Resin (IX), and Equipment are proven treatment solutions for PFAS removal
Strategic locations across the eastern US and the proven ability to mobilize quickly to any US location.
Recent Projects outside of the Eastern US include:
  • NV, TX, IA, MS, UT, ID, WA, SD, & Canada
Encotech / CSEC can provide permanent systems and installations as well as short and long term equipment rentals.
Encotech / CSEC’s full fleet of rental equipment can reduce overall costs for short term projects.
Encotech / CSEC’s project managers and technicians are highly trained.
Training Includes:
  • 40 Hr HAZWOPER
  • 30 Hr OSHA
  • Powered Industrial Truck certification
  • Aerial Lift Certification
  • Confined Space Certification
  • Fall Protection Training
  • Various site specific training

Encotech / CSEC holds various safety management certifications.

These include:

  • ISNetWorld
  • PEC – Veriforce

Encotech / CSEC offers turn-key solutions including equipment, on-site installation and exchange services, reactivation, incineration, and/or disposal.

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