WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news release:

Experts at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL) have made rapid, significant modifications to a one-of-a-kind facility intended to support a full-scale demonstration of state-of-the-art technology designed to destroy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).

EL's Technology Research, Evaluation, and Advancement Testbed (TREAT) demonstration team, in collaboration with Responsible Energy and Tetra Tech, recently modified its TREAT Facility within a month's time to support and validate a thermal-plasma treatment system called Free Radical Gasification, or FRG, for destroying l...