PFAS / PFOS Fluorine Ion Exfoliation with Electro-Kinetic Carbon Surfaces.
We are working with UWO / ICFAR London and Utopia Hemp in Ontario Canada developing technology to destroy waterborne carcinogenic PFAS / PFOS Fluoro-Carbons found in our drinking water and other aqueous media such as AFFF’s fire fighting foams and banned refrigerant compounds. PFAS / PFOS is being introduced into the envvironment from numerous sources and continues to be a major safety concern with EPA and Environment Canada. This technology has shown positive results in the laboratory..
Sono-Dyne technology features passive capture of waterborne PFAS / PFOS at the wetted carbon surfacess with water flowing thereupon, then after some time destruction with applied electro-kinetic energy making Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) with the free hydrogen made available from water electrolysis. The OH radicals are not used in process and are harmless by-product during the purge cycle.
Piezo-electric PZT discs were used here to generate the effect shown in this video, but work is in progress with a new carbon electrode design incorporating a unique and novel electro-magnetic method of generating the energies needed as an alternative method.
The initial validation lab equipment set-up uses Teflon PTFE tape as the sample source of PFAS.wrapped around graphite cathode electrodes having an electro-kinetic surface energy of 130 kcal / mol or greater which is the Carbon Fluorine binding energy in PFAS. A Hydrogen Fluoride detector and software has confirmed the presence of HF gas having it’s origin from the Teflon tape (PFAS). Levels up to 20 ppm fluorine have been observed in this apparatus and recorded commensurate with applied energy.
Outgassing observed at 60 kHz. comprising H + OH hydroxyls by electrolysis. Hydrogen fluoride gas is a true marker of PFAS molecular fluorine exfoliation in electrolyzed water generated at the carbon electrode / Tefllon tape surfaces.
We are pleased to announce our USPTO IP agenda and CSA / UL certification for commercialization is proceeding as planned using elevtro-magnetic technology including piezo-electric for our PFAS / PFOS Fluoro-Kinetic Exfoliation and Mineralization process. ( All rights Reserved )
A corner of the lab at UWO / ICFAR London Ont and the Sono-Dyne home lab bench.
The periodic destructive purge cycle is about one minute in duration whereby the fluorine in the accumulated PFAS is exfoliated and hydrogenated with applied electro-kinetic carbon surface energies of 130 kcal / mol or greater.
The Hydrogen Fluoride makes Hydrofluoric Acid in water then reacts with the Calcium Hydroxide to make Calcium Fluoride via acid neutralization in the second stage at room tenperature at ambient water pressure. A simple two stage real time process with a short HF residence time in the process.
The surplus H + OH radicals from the water electrolysis are thus kept to a minimm for every purge cycle.
Proposed civil and military versions of the technology.
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