In a groundbreaking effort to tackle the pervasive issue of PFAS contamination in drinking water, a research team at New Jersey Institute of Technology has received funding from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Desalination and Water Purification Research program.
This highly competitive grant, awarded to only eight projects out of over eighty applicants, supports their innovative project titled “Enhanced Coagulation for the Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances using Hydrophobic Ion Pairing Approach Project.”
Arjun Venkatesan, associate professor in NJIT’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the principal investigator of this work, is also leading a pilot study from the same program for the project “Enhancing the Removal of Hydrophilic Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Granular Activated Carbon using Hydrophobic Ion-pairing as Pre-treatment” that utilizes a similar approach to tackle PFAS contamination. To read the full story.