2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Thermal Processes for the Destruction of PFAS

Methods for combustion and thermal processes for the destruction of PFAS and other fluorocarbon compounds.

Chair

Richard West, Northeastern University

Co-Chair

Phillip Westmoreland, North Carolina State University

Presentations

03:30 PM

(635a) Destruction-Reaction Pathways for Perfluorocarboxylic and -Sulfonic Acids from a Detailed Kinetic Model
Phillip Westmoreland, Hrishikesh Ram, C. Claire Murphy, Tim Mallo

04:00 PM

(635b) Theoretical Study of Gas-Phase Catalyzed Reactions of PFAS
Siddha Sharma, C Franklin Goldsmith

04:30 PM

(635c) A Shock Tube Study on the Pyrolysis of Perfluorobutanoic Acid
Eduardo Guzman, Caroline Rocchio, Keunsoo Kim, Robert S. Tranter, C Franklin Goldsmith

05:00 PM

(635d) Automating the Generation of Detailed Kinetic Models for Perfluorocarboxylic Acid Degradation and Halocarbon Combustion with Reaction Mechanism Generator
Nora Khalil, Richard West