ER20-5361 New Start Project Overview
Citation:
Magnuson, M., T. Haxton, AND M. Mills. ER20-5361 New Start Project Overview. Presented at Webinar- ER20-5361 New Start Project Overview, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 01, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
The primary goal of this project is to provide data and information to refine existing cleanup guidance for firefighting systems, specifically hangar systems and Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) vehicles impacted by PFAS.
Description:
The overall technical effort involves providing data, information, and best practices on the efficacies of cleanup techniques for firefighting systems. Operational details of those techniques will be informed by PFAS-specific experimental studies of material-specific persistence and modeling of the firefighting piping systems. The studies would be aimed at components of the firefighting systems (e.g., hangar systems and ARFF equipment) considered the mostly likely points to act as PFAS reservoirs, keeping in mind the multitude of systems in existence of varying ages, resulting in site- and vehicle-specific cleanup challenges. A second goal of the cleanup techniques would be to minimize the production of PFAS-containing cleanup solutions. These experiments and demonstrations for cleaning firefighting systems