Battelle completes project with GreenFire, destroying firefighting foam
Companies verify new product is a safe and effective way to destroy aqueous film forming foam.
Battelle, the world’s largest nonprofit, independent applied science and technology organization, has completed a month-long project with GreenFire leveraging Battelle’s PFAS Annihilator™ to destroy firefighting foams, which contain high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Battelle’s PFAS Annihilator technology is capable of effectively destroying PFAS chemicals to non-detect levels. Under a new commercial contract with GreenFire, which produces fire defense and extinguishment products, Battelle’s PFAS Annihilator destroyed firefighting foam—known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) which contain high concentrations of PFAS. Battelle brought the PFAS Annihilator to the GreenFire collection site in Charlotte, N.C. to destroy stockpiled AFFF that came from several local fire houses. The PFAS Annihilator breaks the carbon-fluorine bond, which is the backbone of one of the most durable human-made chemicals, by adding an oxidant once in the supercritical state, then neutralizing to inert salts.