The Conversation has been looking at these forever chemicals known as PFAS — compounds that do not break down in the environment. We connected with John Brockgreitens, the vice president for research and development at Claros Technologies, about the company’s success with using ultraviolet light to treat PFAS in water.
Recycling water is one of the best hopes for maintaining access to reliable, safe water sources for communities nationwide. Water resilience is increasingly important since climate change is predicted to threaten water availability and water quality. New technologies that provide robust testing, capture and concentration and permanent destruction of PFAS can instill confidence that recycled wastewater can be safely used for drinking, irrigation and watershed restoration without any harm to human or environmental health. John Brockgreitens, Claros Director of Research and Development | Feb 23, 2023
New technologies developed and incubated at the University of Minnesota and now being commercialized by Claros Technologies hold the promise of destroying PFAS, taking the “forever” out of “forever chemicals.”
Several companies, including Claros Technologies in Minnesota, are trying to engineer ways to destroy PFAS chemicals. That's a question researchers and companies across the country are eager to answer, as regulation tightens on PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — and the chemicals' producers face a mountain of lawsuits.
Claros recently published a study in the Journal of Environmental Engineering demonstrating widespread PFAS contamination in laboratory containers, showing hidden challenges in PFAS analysis and destruction.
Michelle Bellanca, CEO of cleantech company Claros Technologies, recently shared her thoughts on how to fix the nation’s PFAS problem.
WTiN spoke to Dr John Brockgreitens from Claros Technologies about its technologies that fully destroys PFAS from textile effluent and materials. Claros Technologies says it is working to clean up the industry by capturing and destroying PFAS in textile wastewater.
Claros Technologies, an advanced materials company founded in 2018, is working to fill this gap in PFAS Destruction. Its platform, called Elemental, destroys 97% to 100% of short- and long-chain PFAS in wastewater in less than 3 hours.
Scientific technology may have led to the PFAS contamination problem, but it’s also leading to solutions. Technologies developed at the University of Minnesota and being offered by Claros Technologies detect and destroy PFAS in wastewater, leaving only detoxified water and naturally occurring elements.
Claros Technologies is partnering with Kureha America, Inc. (Houston, TX), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kureha Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), to capture and reuse the highly coveted metals needed for batteries to power a net-zero economy.
