Webinar #3 PFAS removal in sewage sludge and water - with Michalis Fountoulakis and Marcel Riegel

PFAS are commonly detected in water resources, treated wastewater and sweage sludge, meaning sustainable remediation methods are needed for contaminated areas.

During drinking water treatment, PFAS are sometimes removed by activated carbon filtration in advanced treatment facilities. However, the removal of certain short chain PFAS is often suboptimal. Treatment efficiency can be improved by using ion exchangers as single adsorbents and process sustainability can be improved by adding a regeneration step to allow the ion exchangers to be reused. Recent results to advance this technology within the ZeroPM project will be presented by Dr. Marcel Riegel from TZW-DVGW, Germany.

Sewage sludge often goes anaerobic digestion. The addition of conductive materials during the process can improve treatment efficiency and it has been postulated that the addition of certain materials enhances the production of methane in anaerobic reactors. In this webinar, laboratory scale results will be presented about the fate of 6 PFAS during thermophilic digestion of sewage sludge in the presence of granular activated carbon. Recent advances in this technology done within the ZeroPM project will be presented by Michalis Fountoulakis from the University of the Aegean.

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ZeroPM has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101036756