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PFAS REMOVAL SOLUTIONS

ALTRA’s water treatment team is unique in its ability to develop and implement patented processes to address significant challenges with emerging contaminants such as PFAS.

Combating PFAS ‘The Forever Chemical’ contamination

There are hundreds of contaminated sites in Canada and the USA. No complete record of those sites is available but military bases, airports, heliports, landfills, water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants as well as industrial facilities are known locations where the risk of high concentration of PFAS is extremely high. ALTRA experts have been fighting PCBs for decades and began working on PFAS projects 30 years ago. Since then, the company has completed a wide variety of projects, including several major disasters. It offers today the most comprehensive one-stop shop – customized and sustainable approach for treatment of PFAS contaminated water at a fraction of the cost and risk associated with other solutions relying primarily on adsorption media.

Combating PFAS ‘The Forever Chemical’ contamination

ALTRA’s advanced foam fractionation technology, a process commonly used in aquariums for the removal of organic waste is a physico-chemical separation where PFAS are adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles rising through water. At the air–water interface, these bubbles form a foam that is enriched in PFAS, so separation of the foam results in a concentrated foamate. The process can be carried out in both batch and continuous operation. Recent large-scale projects have received increasing attention and demonstrated ALTRA as a successful technology for PFAS removal from landfill leachate.
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Vice-President, Innovation and Head of the PFAS Center of Excellence
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Combating PFAS ‘The Forever Chemical’ contamination

There are hundreds of contaminated sites in Canada and the USA. No complete record of those sites is available but military bases, airports, heliports, landfills, water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants as well as industrial facilities are known locations where the risk of high concentration of PFAS is extremely high. ALTRA experts have been fighting PCBs for decades and began working on PFAS projects 30 years ago. Since then, the company has completed a wide variety of projects, including several major disasters. It offers today the most comprehensive one-stop shop – customized and sustainable approach for treatment of PFAS contaminated water at a fraction of the cost and risk associated with other solutions relying primarily on adsorption media.
ALTRA’s advanced foam fractionation technology, a process commonly used in aquariums for the removal of organic waste is a physico-chemical separation where PFAS are adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles rising through water. At the air–water interface, these bubbles form a foam that is enriched in PFAS, so separation of the foam results in a concentrated foamate. The process can be carried out in both batch and continuous operation. Recent large-scale projects have received increasing attention and demonstrated ALTRA as a successful technology for PFAS removal from landfill leachate.
Contact Martin Bureau
Vice-President, Innovation and Head of the PFAS Center of Excellence
CONTACT MARTIN
DOWNLOAD BROCHURE

6 KEY BENEFITS

01

LOWEST INVESTMENT COST:

Our mobile equipment can be used at a relatively low pay-per- use rate, rather than spending millions of CAPEX+OPEX $ to build a treatment facility

04

THE MOST ROBUST:

The most versatile and robust remediation technology that has proven its ability to work in waters with high percentages of co-contaminants

02

HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED APPROACH:

We calibrate solutions for the nature and size of any needs (underground water, contaminated soils, wells for potable water, etc.)

05

OPERATOR-FRIENDLY DESIGN:

A continuous 24/7 water treatment, ALTRA container unit is designed for portability and plug and play application

03

SAFEST APPROACH:

Close-loop system with zero-emission of PFAS or other toxic gases to the atmosphere. The safest approach available for employees and visitors nearby.

06

THE ONLY GUARANTEED SOLUTION ALTRA:

Provides PFAS treatment services on a ‘water-as-a-service’ commercial model whereby we design, build, operate, finance and maintain the treatment system with an agreed level of PFAS removal.

6 KEY BENEFITS

01

LOWEST INVESTMENT COST:

Our mobile equipment can be used at a relatively low pay-per- use rate, rather than spending millions of CAPEX+OPEX $ to build a treatment facility

02

HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED APPROACH:

We calibrate solutions for the nature and size of any needs (underground water, contaminated soils, wells for potable water, etc.)

03

SAFEST APPROACH:

Close-loop system with zero-emission of PFAS or other toxic gases to the atmosphere. The safest approach available for employees and visitors nearby.

04

THE MOST ROBUST:

The most versatile and robust remediation technology that has proven its ability to work in waters with high percentages of co-contaminants

05

OPERATOR-FRIENDLY DESIGN:

A continuous 24/7 water treatment, ALTRA container unit is designed for portability and plug and play application

06

THE ONLY GUARANTEED SOLUTION ALTRA:

Provides PFAS treatment services on a ‘water-as-a-service’ commercial model whereby we design, build, operate, finance and maintain the treatment system with an agreed level of PFAS removal.

ALTRA Sequenced Water Treatment Approach

PFAS Sequenced Water Treatment Approach

ALTRA Sequenced Water Treatment Approach

PFAS Sequenced Water Treatment Approach

OUR APPROACH

The best way to combat the extreme PFAS contaminations as economically as possible is to develop a custom approach that takes every factor into account and isn’t beholden to any single technology. ALTRA is a technology integrator that offers a suite of solutions, including its proprietary media. The process starts with several treatment trials, which are laboratory validated, to determine which approach is most viable based on a list of possible factors, including what contaminants are in the water besides PFAS.

 

Once the design phase kicks off, ALTRA considers how current treatment technology can fit into the process — for instance, landfill sites may have a biological treatment in place, like a membrane bioreactor (MBR) — and determines the most efficient method for disposal of the contaminated media or concentrated waste stream. All these factors determine the total lifecycle costs.

OUR APPROACH

The best way to combat the extreme PFAS contaminations as economically as possible is to develop a custom approach that takes every factor into account and isn’t beholden to any single technology. ALTRA is a technology integrator that offers a suite of solutions, including its proprietary media. The process starts with several treatment trials, which are laboratory validated, to determine which approach is most viable based on a list of possible factors, including what contaminants are in the water besides PFAS.

Once the design phase kicks off, ALTRA considers how current treatment technology can fit into the process — for instance, landfill sites may have a biological treatment in place, like a membrane bioreactor (MBR) — and determines the most efficient method for disposal of the contaminated media or concentrated waste stream. All these factors determine the total lifecycle costs.

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Martin Bureau discusses the agreement with Waste Connections, the first of its kind in North America, which has set a standard for the industry. Hear from Martin about the real cost of PFAS, and a safe solution from www.ALTRAGroup.com...

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Martin Bureau
Vice-President, Innovation and
Head of the PFAS Center of Excellence

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