Plasma Blue
A Revolution in Process Technology
A Revolution in Process Technology
Plasma Blue is a company based in Minnesota that specializes in advanced water treatment solutions using plasma technology. We focus on harnessing the power of plasma to create reactive species that can effectively disinfect water, remove contaminants and improve water quality. We leveraged insights from previous results to develop an improved design that generates plasma directly in water.
Plasma Blue, LLC is owned by the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council. Plasma Blue’s story began in the biofuels industry as a new revolutionary technology to better utilize renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar, and conversion of sustainably grown feedstocks to oil.
The technology has expanded to injecting cold plasma, or non-thermal plasma, into a stream of water in a continuous flow, hyper-exciting electrons and attacking their bonds, ultimately changing the composition of the liquid stream This dismantles harmful chemicals like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” a group of manmade synthetic chemicals that are resistant to heat, water and oil.
PFAS are most commonly found in fire training/fire response sites, industrial sites, landfills and wastewater treatment plants/biosolids.
Plasma Blue developed a process that uses plasma, the fourth state of matter, to destroy PFAS using non-thermal (cool) plasma as opposed to thermal plasma (hot), pressure or caustic chemicals.
In validated benchtop testing, Plasma Blue’s unit destroyed PFAS to non-detectable levels. By using targeted electrical currents that hyper excites electrons, this technology can change the composition of liquid streams, which previously could only be done with high temperatures, mixing high pressure or strong chemicals.
This technology has been proven at scale in biodiesel and PFAS controls and has shown strong promise in replicated lab studies to effectively disinfect and price novel chemical reactions.
Plasma Blue could be utilized in many industries to clean contaminated water. At the moment, the main use is removing forever chemicals known as PFAS from military sites that previously used the advanced firefighting foam (AFF) or still have storage tanks with this material. Other industries could be landfills, municipal boards, food processors and more.
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