PFAS solution

Overview

Duration:

2023 - 2024

Project type:

Custom service within a funded project

Financing authority:

TEV Group srl

Programme:

Development and Cohesion Fund 21-27 DGRV 1570/2022

Sector:

Sustainability, ESG models and environmental studies

Centre:

C4S

Total budget:

200.000 € of which 70.000 € directly managed by Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Fondazione Ca’ Foscari’s role:

Project designer

Description

Currently, the solutions for the treatment of landfill leachates and groundwater that are highly polluted by perfluoroalkyls (PFASs) turn out to be highly expensive and still present inefficiencies with regard to emerging PFASs i.e. short-chain: the project developed by TEV Group srl aims at developing a prototype at an experimental scale for the treatment of these substances from a circular economy perspective. The designed plant combines the best and most efficient final treatment systems (reverse osmosis) with technologies capable of improving the process as a whole. The experimentation aims to isolate and treat leachate pollutants in different matrices until only PFASs at very high concentrations are concentrated in an aqueous matrix, reducing the volume by thousands of times compared to the incoming leachate to allow their subsequent cost-effective thermodestruction. This will provide an economically and environmentally sustainable technical solution.

The project involves a first literature research to support the executive design of the experimental-scale plant, its implementation, the development of experimental trials for process efficiency, and the development of full-scale plant design. Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari will support the company in all project phases by providing scientific and technical support for process validation.