This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $194,928 to the University of Alabama from January 2023 through December 2024. The funding will support collaboration between the University of Alabama and the Water Tower Institute to develop methods for characterizing extractable organic fluorine and closing the fluorine mass balance in potable water reuse scenarios. Specifically, the grant will establish scholarly partnerships to learn combustion ion chromatography and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry techniques for measuring total extractable organofluorine and quantifying the proportion attributed to known per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It will also work to determine the occurrence of unknown PFAS in environmental samples. The collaboration is expected to generate high-quality undergraduate and graduate research opportunities in water reuse and wastewater treatment, building on the University's water research mission.
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