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Description: PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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This collection of essays provides a state of the field on PFAS from a variety of perspectives within the water sector. Contributors include experts in industrial wastewater, municipal water management, and public health, with each contributor highlighting a different facet of the impact of PFAS in water and wastewater and providing guidance on the responses necessary to limit the chemicals’ negative effects. The collection covers the current understanding of PFAS, the implications for human health, and the growing regulatory framework, as well as the various treatments available for water, wastewater, groundwater, biosolids, leachates and soil/sediments.
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Water Environment Federation
SourceWater Environment Federation
Document typeDigital Book
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Aug 2023
Print ISBN 978-1-57278-414-7
EISBN 9781572784147
Volume / Issue1 / 1
First / last page(s)1 - 491
Copyright2023
Word count156,877
Subject keywordsPFASchemistrysourcestoxicologyregulationslegal ramificationsmodelingbiosolidsresidualsSoilSediment Remediationliquidsolidstreatmentindustrial sourcegroundwaterwater reusepublic health, regulatory

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Description: PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
About WEF
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization of 30,000 individual members and 75 affiliated Member Associations representing water quality professionals around the world. Since 1928, WEF and its members have protected public health and the environment. As a global water sector leader, our mission is to...
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PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Preface
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
The water and wastewater industry has increasingly focused on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) over the past 20 years. PFAS are a class of manufactured chemicals with carbon-fluorine bonds and have been around for nearly a century. PFAS are very useful chemicals and have led to many advances in many industries and commercial products. However, they have also been linked to adverse human...
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Introduction
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
The fluorochemical industry has been making chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for more than 85 years. For the past 20–30 years, PFAS have been found to cause adverse human health effects, creating a world-scale environmental challenge juxtaposed with the thirst for the chemicals in consumer and industrial products. PFAS may affect nearly everyone in the world as...
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Chapter 3: Toxicology
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Copyright2023
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Chapter 5: PFAS State Action Updates
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Chapter 9: Industrial Source Control
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Chapter 11: Emerging Technologies for PFAS Control
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
Somnath Basu, PhD, PE, MBA; Tiffany Thomas, PhD; & Priyanka Ali
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2023
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Description: PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
Chapter 15. PFAS Drinking Water Treatment
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Copyright2023
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Chapter 16. Groundwater
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Chapter 19. Biosolids and Residuals
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Chapter 20. Soil and Sediment Remediation
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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Description: PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
Summary
PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
Hossain M. Azam, PhD, PE; Ryan A. Kirkland, PE; & Erik D. White, PE
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2023
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PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment
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PFAS in the Water and Wastewater Sectors: Fundamentals, Management, and Treatment