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Validate treatment technologies, optimize system design, and generate the regulatory-grade data needed to de-risk full-scale PFAS remediation — before committing at scale.
A pilot study eliminates guesswork — delivering real-world performance data from your specific site's water chemistry, flow conditions, and regulatory environment before capital is committed at scale.
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Reduce Financial Risk
Accurately forecast media lifespan and replacement costs before full-scale investment. Avoid costly technology mismatches driven by incomplete water chemistry dataPrevent frequent, expensive changeouts from poorly matched system selection.
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Validate Technology & Media
Confirm whether GAC, ion exchange, or alternative media effectively removes PFAS from your specific source water — with documented, defensible field evidence rather than lab assumptions.
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Optimize System Design
Determine the most efficient media type, flow rate, empty bed contact time (EBCT), and vessel configuration for full scale — minimizing both capital and long-term operating costs from day one.
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Identify Performance Challenges
Track contaminant breakthrough to understand true media capacity under field conditions. Detect media fouling, pressure changes, or competing constituent interference early. Expose seasonal variation or fluctuating contaminant loads before full-scale commitment.
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Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Generate the performance data required for regulatory approval of permanent systems. Document compliance with current and anticipated PFAS concentration standardsProduce data packages ready for engineering review and regulatory submission.
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Proven Methodology
Birchtech's RSSCT Design Center and analytical process verifies performance through pilot testing, lab analysis, and operational modeling — ensuring every system meets defined contaminant removal targets before deployment.
Birchtech's pilot skid is purpose-built to replicate full-scale operational conditions — so the data you collect translates directly into accurate system design and cost projections.
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Precise, continuous monitoring and control of flow rates throughout the pilot run — eliminating measurement uncertainty from your performance dataset.
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Column diameters matched to anticipated full-scale vessels and operational flow rates, minimizing wall effects and ensuring representative performance data at any scale.
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Accommodates GAC, ion exchange resins, catalytic carbon, and alternative filtration media types — enabling direct side-by-side performance comparison under identical conditions.
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Configurable pretreatment stages replicate full-scale conditions, accounting for turbidity, iron, hardness, and competing constituents specific to your source water.
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Full column-compatible design is easily transportable — allowing deployment directly at the treatment site or in a lab setting for controlled side-by-side testing.
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Designed for straightforward column venting and backwashing — minimizing operational complexity and reducing demands on site personnel throughout the pilot period.
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Custom column diameters match any-sized media while minimizing wall effects — critical for ensuring pilot-scale data accurately predicts full-scale column behavior.
Birchtech's pilot skid is purpose-built to replicate full-scale operational conditions — so the data you collect translates directly into accurate system design and cost projections.
Precise, continuous monitoring and control of flow rates throughout the pilot run — eliminating measurement uncertainty from your performance dataset.
Column diameters matched to anticipated full-scale vessels and operational flow rates, minimizing wall effects and ensuring representative performance data at any scale.
Accommodates GAC, ion exchange resins, catalytic carbon, and alternative filtration media types — enabling direct side-by-side performance comparison under identical conditions.
Configurable pretreatment stages replicate full-scale conditions, accounting for turbidity, iron, hardness, and competing constituents specific to your source water.
Full column-compatible design is easily transportable — allowing deployment directly at the treatment site or in a lab setting for controlled side-by-side testing.
Designed for straightforward column venting and backwashing — minimizing operational complexity and reducing demands on site personnel throughout the pilot period.
Custom column diameters match any-sized media while minimizing wall effects — critical for ensuring pilot-scale data accurately predicts full-scale column behavior.
A structured five-phase process ensures every pilot produces actionable intelligence — with the documentation trail needed for full-scale system permitting.
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