{"id":3819,"date":"2025-05-27T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/?page_id=3819"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:48:39","slug":"thermal-treatment-of-pfas-contaminated-materials-florida-department-of-environmental-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/research\/per-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substance-pfas\/thermal-treatment-of-pfas-contaminated-materials-florida-department-of-environmental-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal Treatment of PFAS Contaminated Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-x-large-font-size\">Evaluating Treatment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>PFAS impacted sites such as fire training facilities, military installations, and airports are faced with the challenge of disposing bulk quantities of contaminated soil, but the chemical and thermal stability of PFAS leaves questions regarding the treatment feasibility of PFAS within traditional incineration technologies. A \u201cmass-balance\u201d accounting for volatile products of incomplete combustion (PICs) has yet to be addressed regarding PFAS decomposition in thermal treatment processes; contaminated soils from across the state are being treated in a lab-scale system with full emissions characterization to address this gap and inform future materials management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/513\/2025\/05\/FDEP-2-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/513\/2025\/05\/FDEP-2-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/513\/2025\/05\/FDEP-2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/513\/2025\/05\/FDEP-2-768x659.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/513\/2025\/05\/FDEP-2.jpg 1523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evaluating Treatment PFAS impacted sites such as fire training facilities, military installations, and airports are faced with the challenge of disposing bulk quantities of contaminated soil, but the chemical and thermal stability of PFAS leaves questions regarding the treatment feasibility of PFAS within traditional incineration technologies. A \u201cmass-balance\u201d accounting for volatile products of incomplete combustion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":0,"parent":3561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3819","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819\/revisions\/4515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/timothy-townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}