PFAS TREATMENT SYSTEMS & RSSCT TESTING
For water utilities, engineering firms, and industrial & commercial water treatment.
Site-specific PFAS data. Before full-scale spend.
Birchtech designs site-specific PFAS treatment systems backed by lab-scale RSSCT piloting. Each pilot generates breakthrough curve data on your actual water chemistry: engineering-grade results your team can specify, size, and budget around before full-scale installation.
Start with a free technical consultation. Response within two business days.
Discuss your water, treatment objectives and a practical next step.
Dr. Nicholas Lentz explains Birchtech’s RSSCT: faster, more accurate, more affordable PFAS media analysis.
INDUSTRIAL WATER-TREATMENT CASE STUDY
Industrial experience.
Measurable cost savings.
A Mid-Atlantic coal-fired utility. Multiple plant locations. Four water sources analyzed.
Average cost improvement
Compared with other solution providers
in this industrial engagement.
Total cost savings
Across the engagement, using a
site-specific treatment approach.
Birchtech reports these results for boiler-feed filtration, boron and selenium treatment. This is industrial delivery experience; it is not a PFAS-specific result or a guarantee of future savings.
One approach across multiple water challenges.
A Mid-Atlantic coal-fired utility partnered with Birchtech across multiple plant locations to address boiler feed filtration plus wet scrubber wastewater contaminated with boron and selenium: the same integrated, data-driven approach we bring to every PFAS engagement, applied at industrial scale.
For your project: evaluate media performance and lifecycle cost together before committing to a treatment approach.
The challenge
- Multiple plant locations and water touch points
- Filtration protecting reverse osmosis boiler feed
- Wet scrubber wastewater: boron, EPA-regulated
- Wet scrubber wastewater: selenium, EPA-regulated
The approach
- Water analyzed from four different sources
- Sand + anthracite media for RO protection
- Anion and cation exchange resins for boron
- Pilot-tested proprietary adsorptive media for selenium
What could drive your treatment costs?
Discuss your water, media choices and project requirements with our team.
THE TESTING BEHIND YOUR TREATMENT
Every recommendation starts with an RSSCT.
Make your PFAS specification with measured performance from your own water.
Birchtech is a specialty activated carbon technology company built around Rapid Small-Scale Column Testing. Before any media reaches your specification, it runs in our columns, on your source water, under simulated full-scale conditions. GAC, catalytic carbon, ion exchange resin, mixed media: the RSSCT determines what performs, because PFAS chemistry rarely fits a single solution.
Tested, Not Assumed
Every candidate media, including our SEA-IX™ ion exchange resins, GAC, and mixed-media configurations, is evaluated head-to-head under RSSCT against your actual water chemistry. The breakthrough data decides the recommendation, not a default product line.
EPA-Aligned Analysis
RSSCT runs are backed by current EPA and ASTM PFAS analytical methods, with 24/7 continuous sampling. Site-specific breakthrough curves replace catalog projections, so your team can specify around measured performance.
From Column to Commissioning
The RSSCT is the front end of a complete engagement. From bench-scale piloting through system design, commissioning, and operational support, Birchtech serves as a single partner across the full treatment lifecycle: media, services, and lifecycle management.
Know what to test before you invest.
Talk through your water chemistry and candidate media. Understand how an RSSCT could inform your next engineering decision.
WHY BIRCHTECH
Why utilities and engineering firms choose Birchtech.
Media-Agnostic Engineering
Your benefit: a defensible media choice.
In-House RSSCT Design Centers
Your benefit: direct access to the testing team.
120+ Patents in Activated Carbon
Your benefit: experienced technical input.
Public-Company Stability
Your benefit: visibility into your project partner.
COMPARE YOUR TREATMENT PARTNERS
Why Birchtech belongs on your shortlist.
Use these questions to compare proposals around your water, your specification and your long-term costs.
| What matters to your project | With Birchtech | Ask other providers |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence before investment | RSSCT on your source water, producing site-specific breakthrough data. | Will you validate media performance on our actual water before specification? |
| A choice of treatment media | GAC, IX and mixed-media evaluation guided by testing. | Which media options will you compare, and what determines the recommendation? |
| Access to technical expertise | In-house design centers in North Dakota and Pennsylvania. | Who performs the testing, and can our engineers discuss the results with them? |
| Support beyond the pilot | Testing through system design, commissioning and operational support. | Who takes responsibility for each stage after the pilot? |
Other providers’ capabilities vary. These are questions for evaluating proposals, not claims that every competitor lacks these services.
Discuss how these capabilities fit your PFAS project.
Talk to Birchtech’s Water TeamTREATMENT OPTIONS
Media-agnostic by design.
Birchtech is a specialty activated carbon technology company and we work with adjacent media because PFAS chemistry doesn't fit one solution. Your water data drives the recommendation, so your team can compare performance before selecting media.
Granular Activated Carbon
Mixed Media
Ion Exchange Resins
Catalytic Carbon
Not sure which media to consider? Discuss My PFAS Media Options
FROM PILOT TO FULL SCALE
From sample ship to system design.
Move from a water sample to data your team can specify, size and budget around. RSSCT supports engineering decisions without waiting for a lengthy full-scale pilot.
Sample Arrives
Lab Pilot
Report Delivered
System Design
Commission
BROADER WATER-TREATMENT CAPABILITY
PFAS may not be your only water challenge.
PFAS is one of many contaminants Birchtech engineers around. The same RSSCT methodology applies to arsenic, selenium, heavy metals and emerging contaminants. Discuss the full contaminant picture in your source water so treatment decisions account for more than PFAS alone.
Have more than one water-treatment concern?
Discuss What’s in My WaterYOUR NEXT STEP
Let’s plan your next step toward PFAS treatment.
Share your details to request a free technical consultation. Our water-treatment team will respond within two business days.
What happens after you enquire?
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Tell us the essentials
Your contact details, organization and any project context you have.
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Connect with our team
Discuss your water source, objectives and current treatment questions.
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Understand the next step
Explore whether pilot testing, media evaluation or system design fits your needs.
Birchtech’s broader capabilities include:
Pilot testing, system design, or a full-scale SEA® deployment.
FREE TECHNICAL CONSULTATION
Tell us about your water.
Start with three essentials: your name, work email and organization.
Direct to Birchtech’s water-treatment team.
For utilities, engineering firms, consultants and industrial/commercial projects.