Burning Forever Chemicals With Water

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  • čas přidán 15. 08. 2023
  • Forever Chemicals, also known as PFAS, are extremely useful industrial chemicals, but they can also leak into the environment, your drinking water, and your blood. And they last (practically) forever. But now chemists have a new way to destroy them: burning them with water.
    #chemistry #supercritical #pfas
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Komentáře • 139

  • @ACSReactions
    @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +44

    Supercritical fluids are useful for all kinds of stuff. For example, supercritical CO2 can remove caffeine from coffee without pulling out anything else. Check out our shorts content for more about that coming soon.

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher Před 10 měsíci

      There are, I think hundreds, if not thousands, of similar compounds to the PFAS molecule shown on the white board. Companies are phasing some out, but are going to still produce others. This needs to be known about, and opposed. Different forever chems could be even worse.

    • @DeltaNovum
      @DeltaNovum Před 5 měsíci

      The science and probably loads of applications behind it are really cool. Thanks for explaining.
      However when it comes to solving the salted earth problem that is pfas, a new way of disposal is but a drop in the ocean.
      If we can find a way to seperate all the insects from every part of dirt on this earth we'll be just a tiny step closer to actually getting the pfas out of the environment. And being able to destroy the part that really matters.

  • @tiaxanderson9725
    @tiaxanderson9725 Před 10 měsíci +16

    To be fair, at 370+ degrees C and 200+ atmospheres of pressure, I too completely change my personality.

    • @orterves
      @orterves Před 7 měsíci +1

      Extreme dissociative personality disorder

  • @DH-bf9xb
    @DH-bf9xb Před 10 měsíci +75

    I like the honesty of this channel. A lot of science media over-hypes things for the clicks. This channel is pretty honest about the likelihood of these cool reactions becoming actual solutions to our problems.

    • @MrMash-mh9dy
      @MrMash-mh9dy Před 9 měsíci

      It's a weird thing this channel. Google, American Chemical Society, and you will see they are actually a lobbying group for the chemical manufacturing industry. That though does come with a caveat, they hire ACTUAL chemists, and some of these chemists, get to do a CZcams channel because it is good PR to educate. I think they get to do whatever they want really and it shows in the videos that they are actually having fun doing the science, so I have watched for years. Always good stuff and I like this guy especially because he knows a good gag.

  • @majorfallacy5926
    @majorfallacy5926 Před 10 měsíci +19

    This is the only well researched videos about pfas i've seen on the internet so far. Even mentioned that firefighting foams are the main culprit and not pans. This video should have a lot more views.

  • @MmmVomit
    @MmmVomit Před 10 měsíci +24

    Sign me up for super critical water cremation. I mean, not like right now. Gimme a few decades. I've still got stuff to do.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd Před 10 měsíci +2

      You might want to check out a more accessible and possible method called _aquamation._ This is a process where sodium hydroxide is used to reduce the body to material that can be safely flushed unto waterways like treated sewage is. (Probably even safer than sewage treatment.) Aquamation turns the body liquid.
      I recommend looking up Caitlin Doughty of "Ask A Mortician" for more info.

  • @drrocketman7794
    @drrocketman7794 Před 10 měsíci +21

    I was warned about the extreme dangers of HF in electronics school. Our instructor had been a chemical safety officer at Intel. He knew about the OG bone hurting juice that is hydrofluoric acid.

    • @kj_H65f
      @kj_H65f Před 9 měsíci +2

      Was he missing a finger? I knew a guy from back when I worked there that didn't follow safety protocol and accidentally exposed his finger to HF (back in the 90s) and didn't know until he woke up in the middle of the night with strong pain and ended up needing to get it removed later.
      HF is no joke!

    • @drrocketman7794
      @drrocketman7794 Před 9 měsíci

      @nombi5456 No, but I think he knew the guy that happened to. The initial treatment is to put a calcium gel injection into your BONES, and there's nothing they can do to make it less painful. If that doesn't work, then amputation. If you get HF all over yourself, there's nothing that anyone can do.

  • @FerusLywin
    @FerusLywin Před 9 měsíci +4

    I don't usually comment, but I have to say this is fantastic scicomm. Came for the PFAS, stayed because I learned so much about supercritical fluids. Loved the theater-style demo in the kitchen. Makes chemistry relatable!

  • @Sykdude
    @Sykdude Před 10 měsíci +13

    I'm in the U.S. Navy and I can tell you that PFAS and PFOSes are currently the bane of my existence.

  • @mountiedm
    @mountiedm Před 10 měsíci +3

    I love the part "I don't know what you want from me!!"

  • @blue_champignon5738
    @blue_champignon5738 Před 10 měsíci +15

    10:25 We may not have supercritical water cremation, but we still have regular water cremation lol
    (Some states allow you to basically pressure cook a body with lye into goo, which uses way less energy than fire cremation, and technically you're compostable at the end of the process)

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +9

      Yes! We talked about this briefly in our episode on corn tortillas (I promise it was actually kinda relevant)
      czcams.com/video/_LKe9hmXdvM/video.html

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@ACSReactions "... Now we nixtamalize the body ..." 😸

  • @Phootaba
    @Phootaba Před 10 měsíci +7

    I Sweden we have a recycling fee on bottles and cans.
    Shouldn't be to difficult to have the same on pfas products.
    The paper recycling from newspapers is debited when you buy the paper etc.
    The only big issue I can see is to stop illegal exportation.
    The threat of stuff like pcb is still fresh in most adults, shouldn't be too difficult to get something like that going.

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Nice idea, but not quite aligned with reality I'm afraid. The main contamination sources so far have been insufficiently regulated industry (so whether that's still a problem depends on where you live) and firefighting foams. Which is a problem because since there are no viable alternatives at the moment, you have to decide between contaminating the ground vs. letting people die. Not a choice I want to have to make.
      Household contamination is also an issue, but mostly comes from waste water from washing textiles, so incineration is obviously not an option. The concentrations are so low that until a few years ago, we weren't even able to reliably measure it, let alone clean it up. And for incinerated solid wastes, if i recall correctly the main problem isn't air pollution but waste ash being used in fertilizing products.
      There is no pretty solution. No pfas means people die and essential tech stops working, but in return we contaminate the environment. Imo the only reasonable thing we can do right now except do more research is avoiding unnecessary sources of contamination like waterproofed textiles.

  • @em945
    @em945 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Came for some hopefully good news about PFAS.
    Was almkst overwelmed with highly entertaining presentation.
    Thank you for your excellent efforts.

  • @rkeil3145
    @rkeil3145 Před 10 měsíci +8

    HF varies a lot in danger with water content. Dilute HF is used as a glass etching solution by artists without much trouble. Anhydrous HF is truly awful stuff to work with.

  • @Skynettt007
    @Skynettt007 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Very interesting, the absorption would absolutely help concentrate the majority of the pollutants into a liquid slurry I’d imagine? This could be very helpful in my work with mycoremediation, or fungal bio degradation. Fungi possess the unique ability to break down forever chemicals. These are mainly white rot fungi that can do this, due to their ability to break down large chain carbon molecules like lignin. They employ the same techniques and methods to break down the PFAS emitting peroxides, ligases, etc.

  • @zbret
    @zbret Před 10 měsíci +5

    While HF is certainly scary as is, you hit it on the nose at the end, a little cheap base like NaOH for example and you have NaF (toothpaste fluoride) and Na2SO4 (food additive). Also Both H2SO4 and HF are industrial valuable chemicals. It might be worth finding ways to recycle them back out of the process but probably easier to just have a base-adding second phase.
    BTW, if you think those are scary, go look up ClF3 and FOOF. They make HF look like a cuddly kitten..

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 10 měsíci +2

      Just came looking to see if someone had mentioned those two. 😸

    • @squidwardfromua
      @squidwardfromua Před 9 měsíci +2

      "... and saw that concrete floor of the vehicle assembly building was on fire..."

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@squidwardfromua What's that a quote from? 😸

  • @LegendaryRyu
    @LegendaryRyu Před 10 měsíci +3

    SCWO is definitely a good way to go about dealing with PFAS, especially with surrounding COD to drive it.
    Look into HALT, EO, plasma treatment, and UV activated advanced oxidation techniques if you want to look at things even more creative

  • @dggarb
    @dggarb Před 10 měsíci +1

    I work in the industry and you did a great job!

  • @user-rm2qj2jh4l
    @user-rm2qj2jh4l Před 10 měsíci +2

    Great video! And I love the cute dog in the background :D

  • @sangomasmith
    @sangomasmith Před 10 měsíci +2

    One of my favorite uses of supercritical water is supercritical water oxidation for power production. Basically you pump oxygen and fuel into your supercritical water reactor and it becomes an internal combustion steam engine.
    It's very hard to do and the power output is limited by the amount of input energy you need to get it running. But it means that you can in theory create an engine that can use anything organic as a fuel source - wet biomass, dry biomass, factory waste, sewage.

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 10 měsíci

      So instead of a Mr. Fusion, you get a Mr. Combustion?

    • @squidwardfromua
      @squidwardfromua Před 9 měsíci

      "... wet biomass, dry biomass, factory waste, sewage"
      And PFAS right? 😁

  • @devluz
    @devluz Před 10 měsíci +3

    4:30 I just tried to clean that smudge off my screen but it turned out to be super critical fluid all along...

  • @allanhernandez1241
    @allanhernandez1241 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Super well-explained video, first time seeing this channel, and loved it!

  • @jimmij3894
    @jimmij3894 Před 10 měsíci

    Your dog seems to find your voice so comforting so much that it falls asleep.

  • @microwave221
    @microwave221 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Just found out about supercritical water remediation while researching exactly how bad the foam we still use is, and how hard l should be pushing them to switch to something else. I was glad to see that there is a scalable process for breaking this junk down, because there is so much of it. So much. There's a few thousand gallons at my facility alone, and enough has been flowed at the training center that the ground suds when it rains.

  • @darylcheshire1618
    @darylcheshire1618 Před 10 měsíci +1

    My friend plays tennis next to a car detailing plant, she asked me what was in this 4 gallon drum. I came to have a look, it contained aqueous hydrofluoric acid. It was on private property, not much could be done, it wasn't leaking or anything. It dissolves oil and grease (amongst other things) and is good at cleaning cars.

  • @jaymayhoi
    @jaymayhoi Před 9 měsíci +1

    just wanna say your videos are so good and i learn something new i've never heard before everytime - and i subscribe to lots of science channels too!

  • @dj_laundry_list
    @dj_laundry_list Před 10 měsíci +2

    I could just look this up, but 1) How are we going to isolate PFAS to a high enough purity to not cause other reaction issues and unwanted by products? And 2) if we can separate it, isn't there some way of recycling it into more or different PFAS materials? Eg: why can't fire fighting foam just be a soup of reused PFAS and viscosity-controlling agents and such? 3) Why don't we just use the HF as a chemical feedstock, since we have to mine fluorite and mix it with sulfuric acid to make HF anyway?

  • @BRUXXUS
    @BRUXXUS Před 10 měsíci +8

    I’ve been so fascinated with supercritical fluids since first learning about them. Very surreal. I never knew water’s properties changed so dramatically when supercritical.
    I also find the bathtub in the basement quite curious. 🤔

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 10 měsíci

      Don't worry, they're just making soap. /j

    • @FullCircleTravis
      @FullCircleTravis Před 10 měsíci

      Could be a dog bath.

    • @EmilySmirleGURPS
      @EmilySmirleGURPS Před 7 měsíci

      A full bathroom in the basement usually means the basement was used as a separate apartment at some point - for a granny flat or for a boarder.

  • @user-bp8yg3ko1r
    @user-bp8yg3ko1r Před 10 měsíci +2

    Super informative and very well presented!
    Thank you!!!

  • @ManiVictorious
    @ManiVictorious Před 10 měsíci +5

    Can someone elaborate why supercritical water is a non-polar solvent? The only thing I can think of is this being due to very rapid rearrangement of the molecules and hence, averaging out the dipole moment? If true, does this general concept apply to (mostly) all supercritical fluids, do they all act as if non-polar?

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +6

      We really wanted to include that in the video, but haven't been able to find a good explanation for this. We've come up with several hypotheses, but wouldn't want to just speculate in the comments. Let us know if you find any info!

    • @CoughSyrup
      @CoughSyrup Před 10 měsíci +2

      Yeah, that's a good question. I don't think it is known for certain just yet why that is.
      I wondered if the pressures involved might be able to overcome the forces involved that dictate the bond angle. Apparently this is wrong. Very wrong; Its not even close. The forces involved in maintaining the bond angle are great.
      One of the more straightforward and simple theories put forth has to do with the expected (calculated, estimated) value of one of water's properties to be at those temperature and pressure regimes.
      And that property is water's _dielectric constant_, or the ratio of its electric permittivity to the electric permittivity of a vacuum, also called simply the "relative permittivity". Permittivity is a property that affects the Coulomb force, or the electrostatic force of either attraction or repulsion between two point charges. It is the Coulomb forces of water's hydrogens and oxygen, along with its bond angle, which introduces an asymmetry in the molecule, which is responsible for its polarity.
      ANYWAYS, water has been tested over a wide range of pressures and temperatures.
      "Ah, so the relative permittivity must decrease with temperature and decrease with pressure," I thought.
      I thought wrong.
      Water has been found to:
      decrease relative permittivity with increasing temperature
      INCREASE relative permittivity with increasing density
      ...so that means the relative permittivity stays about the same, right? ... RIGHT!?
      Again, I was wrong.
      There is a large region in which water is considered supercritical, but the supercritical region being considered here, both in the video and in discussions of this effect is in the regions of very high pressure only (while the temperature may be somewhat more variable).
      And it is within this region that water is calculated (I don't think it has been directly measured, as that could be somewhat difficult--although I could be wrong) to have a relative permittivity in the range of 10 to 25.
      By comparison, water as we are used to encountering it (room temperature at 1 atm) has a relative permittivity of 80.
      Values of 10 to 25 are similar to those of dipolar liquids, such as acetone or ethanol, under ordinary conditions.
      And this, seemingly, explains it... EXCEPT THAT'S WRO--Naw, I'm just fooling about. This does indeed conclude the explanation, according to the hypothesis.

    • @lautaromorales2903
      @lautaromorales2903 Před měsícem

      it's still polar (form what i've found), but as said in the video, it's acting in between a gas and a liquid. I think than when water molecules have a ton of speed (because of the high temperature) they cant rearrange around an ion to dissolve it as they do in liquid state, they go too fast and the water solvation sphere simply breaks.
      The reason because they dissolve non polar molecules i think it's the same reason, it's acting like a gas. The molecules go so fast that the non polar molecules are kicked of and dispersed in the fluid.

  • @stundogha4947
    @stundogha4947 Před 9 měsíci

    Very interesting! Thanks for making this video.

  • @ktktktktktktkt
    @ktktktktktktkt Před 10 měsíci +4

    I appreciate the possibility but it's too late for me... I don't think this reaction is going to get rid of the PFAS in my body.
    Also, who's going to pay for it? Dupont may have made a killing on selling it but I have a feeling it will cost even more to get rid of it.

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 10 měsíci

      3M has already announced they're going to completely end PFAS production by 2025, so that's a good start.

  • @alvaroludolf
    @alvaroludolf Před 10 měsíci +4

    Damn, now I want to be super critical water cremated when I die.

  • @saumyacow4435
    @saumyacow4435 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Also, when you introduce bases, what kinds of molecules end up containing the fluorine?

  • @seanc6128
    @seanc6128 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Wonder where those forever chemicals came from. Hmmm...

  • @Radio_FM_3123
    @Radio_FM_3123 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Concentration is another parameter that affects the choose of treatment method,
    ppt, ppb and ppm level are more difficult to treat than that of high concentrated solution.

  • @jmd1743
    @jmd1743 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This legitimately sounds like the job for one of those modular micro reactors as you could generate a lot of energy in a remote location for public safety. Maybe a Micro reactor manufacture could donate one of their products as a tax write off and as a test bed? If you made the acids available for free companies would be lining up to talk it off your hands the way it's done with used cooking oil, road millings, and scrap metal. Then it's no longer a waste issue but a logistics problem. Perhaps you would build this PFAS disposable facility where they would have otherwise produced the acids?

  • @youtube7076
    @youtube7076 Před 10 měsíci +1

    1:33 suuupppeeeerr cute! where is this dog going? its living the gud life !

  • @saumyacow4435
    @saumyacow4435 Před 10 měsíci +1

    How does it compare energy wise to destroying these chemicals using plasma?
    Also, sCO2 will dissolve fats and oils. Can I use it to make the perfect (low fat) chip?

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Před měsícem

    Now that some states have established maximum PFAS concentrations allowed in drinking water, I hope affordable technology exists to remove it from municipal water systems.

  • @sillyone52062
    @sillyone52062 Před 9 měsíci

    I breathed in, drank, and likely ate, PFAS from the DuPont Teflon plant in Washington, Ohio. Thank you, DuPont.

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Hmm does it have to be water tho? I mean, supercritical Xenon seems to be quite easy to procure. Would it not do the trick? Or some other substance perhaps?

  • @joewebster903
    @joewebster903 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Agreed and their is a practical solution to capture both HF and sulfuric and sulfurous acid from the super critical oxidation reaction it’s being used today to control the waste pyrolysis of fluoridated coatings over medical and carpet treatments and called Alterin technology and used in the UK today trough upcycling global

  • @evilferris
    @evilferris Před 10 měsíci +1

    My new metal band name:
    _Supercritical Water Cremation_
    [grimaces musically]

  • @KaushikAdhikari
    @KaushikAdhikari Před 10 měsíci +1

    This process needs more recognition

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax Před 10 měsíci

      it's used industrially

    • @KaushikAdhikari
      @KaushikAdhikari Před 10 měsíci

      @@thekaxmax I'm speaking about general use

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax Před 10 měsíci

      @@KaushikAdhikari yes. I'm saying it already has recognition.
      There are people working on getting it for smaller installations, as he said. But it's not there yet.

    • @KaushikAdhikari
      @KaushikAdhikari Před 10 měsíci +1

      @thekaxmax I got it ! Hopefully it'll be available for general use sooner rather than later

  • @jredmane
    @jredmane Před 7 měsíci

    Question: if PFAS is in everything and everyone, how do we safely extract and collect it in order to oxidize it this way?

  • @lautaromorales2903
    @lautaromorales2903 Před měsícem

    HF has the acidity of citric acid (lemon juice) so the acidity isn't the real problem. The problem is that it's a molecule so little that can go throught gloves and skin easly, and when it's in the body it bonds strongly to the calcium in your organism and therefore can't be used for muscle function, leading to a cardiac arrest and death.

  • @lautaromorales2903
    @lautaromorales2903 Před měsícem

    where this process is made? If it's made in a metal container. does the supercritical water corrodes the metal and produces H2 that leaks throught the metal and weekens it?

  • @foracal5608
    @foracal5608 Před 7 měsíci

    Fluorine compounds... Run also amazing video didn't know that property of water at those states

  • @youtube7076
    @youtube7076 Před 10 měsíci

    9:43 what alchemy is this! please teach me these ways so that i can add this fizz to my beer (and wine?)

  • @esterparis1190
    @esterparis1190 Před 10 měsíci

    Oxidation by supercritical water releases Hydrofluoric acid which could be neutralized by lime, calcium hydroxide.
    But the real problem is to extract the PFAS from waste water so as not to have too large volumes to treat.
    Extraction would logically be possible with a perfluorinated polymer absorbent.

  • @TazPessle
    @TazPessle Před 10 měsíci +1

    @0:35 wait, the way you say this makes it sound like a very specific thing that only happens to a select group of elements/molecules. I thought everything could be a superfluid so long as it doesn't decompose under the conditions. (Whether we can produce the conditions is the question). But I can't think of an element that can't do it , in theory, and the same for most simple molecules too.

    • @TheMongooseOfDoom
      @TheMongooseOfDoom Před 10 měsíci +1

      Also @0:45 that must be the world's least powerful gas burner on the left behind him, seeing as how it burns at less than 374°C.

  • @esterparis1190
    @esterparis1190 Před 10 měsíci +1

    L'oxydation par l'eau super critique libère de l'acide Fluorhydrique qui pourrait être neutralisée par de la chaux, calcium hydroxyde.
    Mais le vrai problème est d'extraire le PFAS des eaux réiduaire afin de n'avoir pas de trop grands volumes a traiter.
    L'extraction serait logiquement possible avec un absorbant polymère perfluoré.

  • @DerFailer
    @DerFailer Před 10 měsíci

    I wonder how one would extract the PFAS from whatever it is bonded to. I don't think they want to put frying pans into the reactor

  • @boriskaragiannis
    @boriskaragiannis Před 9 měsíci

    what we need to do to keep these chemicals out of our tables?

  • @Petch85
    @Petch85 Před 10 měsíci +1

    How do you make PFAS?

  • @wolfisr
    @wolfisr Před 10 měsíci +4

    Can CO2 on its supercritical phase serve similar purpose with less drastic pressure and temperature parameters?
    Thanks for the video, you're doing excellent job ❤

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +8

      Supercritical CO2 isn't useful for oxidizing PFAS, but it can selectively remove caffeine from coffee. We have a short coming about this in the not-too-distant future, stay tuned.

    • @xwtek3505
      @xwtek3505 Před 10 měsíci

      Supercritical CO2 is basically just dry cleaning.

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@ACSReactions It can also be used to make THC concentrates without using flammable and/or explosive solvents like butane.

  • @leoholberg9776
    @leoholberg9776 Před 10 měsíci

    Great video, but in what world is C-F bond the 'strongest in organic chemistry'? I'm sure fx C=N would have significantly higher bond enthalpy

    • @alvaroludolf
      @alvaroludolf Před 10 měsíci +3

      CF is the strongest natural single bond with carbon. CN is stronger but with two bonds. If you take per bond it would be lower. Still B-F, Si-F and H-F are stronger... all Fluor based though.

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +4

      The strongest single bond with carbon, to be more precise with our language.

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges Před 10 měsíci

    How do we deal with the remaining PFAS? Can it be 100% destroyed? If not, how is it removed from the super-critical water after the reaction?

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci +1

      Good question. I think what you’d do is do multiple passes or extend the reaction time until you have something like 99.999% destruction.

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@ACSReactions That's still 10 ppm, though -- what is/are the acceptable limit/s for PFAS concentrations?

  • @exovoid8529
    @exovoid8529 Před 9 měsíci

    could supercritical water be used for destroying nuclear waste from nuclear power plants?

  • @CoughSyrup
    @CoughSyrup Před 10 měsíci

    So water is clearly just showing off at this point.
    Water has already won the award for the #1 most dynamic, useful, diverse and amazing chemical compound of all time, and in two award categories: Solvents, general and chemical compounds essential for life. Or at least it is in my book, anyways.
    Water could have easily retired once the 10th phase of water ice was found. And yet, they are up to, what, 18 now? 19? What a total powerhouse!
    Water just loves flexing on the competition, I guess.
    I once said that if I was the competition, I would want to cry, until someone pointed out to me: "Cry what?" BAH! Yet another W for water, that jerk!

  • @ghostrunner5512
    @ghostrunner5512 Před 9 měsíci

    There is lots of energy to do this, you can set up a solar oven and literally burn PFAS while the sun shines.

  • @sillyone52062
    @sillyone52062 Před 9 měsíci

    His goldie is often in the background, sleeping 💤. His interest in chemistry, or lack thereof, is evident.

  • @EmilySmirleGURPS
    @EmilySmirleGURPS Před 7 měsíci

    Super-critical water cremation sounds like a fine idea except for the high energy costs and encouraging a commercial process involving high pressures to go into a sector that's not accustomed to them.
    Fire cremation requires an absurd amount of energy and generates a lot of CO2 because, well, burning, and also tends to emit a shocking amount of mercury, because of fillings. Super-critical water cremation avoids a lot of that, but replaces it with straight up energy costs and a pressure vessel just desperate to have a BLEVE

  • @elitequeef
    @elitequeef Před 9 měsíci

    Where did it get the Hydrogen from to create HF?

  • @youtube7076
    @youtube7076 Před 10 měsíci

    0:01 i think i just saw one of them decay! :+D ...

  • @Danielhuren
    @Danielhuren Před 7 měsíci

    i feel like if they went to the people that build nuclear powerplants they could get there costs down lots of high pressure water runs through nuclear plants and im willing to bet it can handle the preasures and temps they would need to hit bonus points if they use it in a cooling loop for an actual reactor but i wouldn't considering how corrosive the reaction would be over time to heating system i would be suprised if it could last more then 10 years before the entire thing needs to be replaced

  • @custos3249
    @custos3249 Před 10 měsíci

    Lost me in saying industry doesn't like SO4 and HF. HF may not be as common, but they're still frequently used. So what's the issue with recovering the acids to sell back to industry?

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 10 měsíci

      The issue is that they’re corrosive/reactive, so you don’t want them destroying the expensive equipment you built

    • @custos3249
      @custos3249 Před 10 měsíci

      @@ACSReactions Oh, ok. Seems like an obvious engineering issue, one we've already solved at least partly, making your statement a little, well....... I mean, sure, we're able to produce bottles of fluoroantimonic acid, and while containers may not be at extreme pressures or temperatures, we've still figured out how to ship it around the world safely. According to the molecular electricians I know, FAA is much scarier than HF and SO4. If only it were a matter of lateral thinking finding lining substances inert or resistant to the conditions present, could be made cheaply sacrificial, or electrifying the device to control corrosion somehow..... Nah. That's silly. Defeatism for the......win?

  • @karlswanson95
    @karlswanson95 Před 4 měsíci

    Supercritical water does not hold salts. Wonder if it would be worth it converting salt water to fresh at extreme depths and then using the flow of fresh water to power the process. Probably not but it is a thought.

  • @douglasboyle6544
    @douglasboyle6544 Před 10 měsíci

    Make my FAS the PFAS, I want my FAS FASSED Up!
    (My apologies to Parliament Funkadelic)

  • @michaeldasilva5976
    @michaeldasilva5976 Před 27 dny

    Wait wait wait.
    If water behaves like a non-polar molecule when it's supercritical, does that imply that its polar character is only because of autoionization?
    That sounds silly because it would imply that water autoionizes even as a subcritical gas but what explains the non-polar behavior at supercritical temperatures and pressures?
    Does the bond angle change? I suppose water would be expressing its vibrational modes at such temperatures but is it because the sawhorse (sp3 hybridized oxygen) is able to flip the hydrogens about its center plane (dividing the hydrogens and electron pairs) at a high enough frequency such that it's approximately linear?
    That sounds much more plausible than an autoionizing gas.
    I suppose by that logic, if oxygen is rotating fast enough about 1 of the 3 primary axes, it would also look non-polar.
    Woah. Surely there's literature on that. Anyone have a good reference?

  • @johncareatti7835
    @johncareatti7835 Před 10 měsíci

    If the water is supercritical, would it instead be Hydrogen Flouride and not Hydroflouric acid? Of course as soon as the water returns to being subcritical it would become hydroflouric acid.

  • @korcommander
    @korcommander Před 8 měsíci

    Sounds like you could clean the entire ecosystem with just a few nuclear reactors

  • @N8DE420
    @N8DE420 Před 10 měsíci

    Sometimes I have to pee fast

  • @iconerror
    @iconerror Před 10 měsíci +1

    When there's a long lineup in the bathroom behind me I always try to PFASt

  • @chadgdry3938
    @chadgdry3938 Před 2 měsíci

    Billion-dollar cleanup of PFAS contamination at military bases.

  • @caseyalanjones
    @caseyalanjones Před 6 měsíci

    4:23

  • @Uterr
    @Uterr Před 10 měsíci

    you should have not do that blur thingy that was on a screen for 5 minutes straight, pretty innerving 😄

  • @palpytine
    @palpytine Před 10 měsíci +1

    What does it even *mean* to be a "base" in supercritical water? Water dissociating into ions is the entire basis of pH, if thats not happening any more then your sodium hydroxide/bicarbonate/whatever is no longer acting as a base. That, plus it's ionic and therefore no longer soluble.

    • @BioTechproject27
      @BioTechproject27 Před 10 měsíci +2

      A base is just an electron donor/proton acceptor in a reaction. A base does not depend on existance of water, although usually it is used in that context.
      And just because it's not in a solution doesn't mean it won't react. The sulfuric and hydrofluoric acid molecules are still very mobile and will react with solid bases, they just have to come into contact.
      Pour some 98% sulfuric acid onto solid sodium hydroxide, trust me, you'll get a violent acid-base reaction.

  • @ameba2804
    @ameba2804 Před 9 měsíci

    Why is cremation using supercritical water a bad idea? Seriously.

  • @mmalley1960
    @mmalley1960 Před 9 měsíci

    make bupont pay 4 it

  • @Rungus27
    @Rungus27 Před 10 měsíci

    just stick the barrels of fire fighting foam into the same mountain caverns that the nuclear waste gets stored in

  • @BenjaminCronce
    @BenjaminCronce Před 10 měsíci

    I was wondering how a channel about chemical reactions was going to talk about PFAS, something very nonreactive.

    • @mchldpy
      @mchldpy Před 10 měsíci

      PFAS, not possible w/out chemical reactions. Please make sure brain is in gear before dumping the clutch on your mouth.

  • @miketrissel5494
    @miketrissel5494 Před 10 měsíci

    "Liquid Water" ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! You made a funny!

  • @feldinho
    @feldinho Před 10 měsíci +1

    DOG

  • @imogenphillips1053
    @imogenphillips1053 Před 10 měsíci

    Just microwave the water. You can get it super critical haha

    • @Ice_Karma
      @Ice_Karma Před 9 měsíci +1

      Superheated, not supercritical.

  • @jasharin
    @jasharin Před 10 měsíci

    hmm, sounds expensive. let's just keep dumping waste into the ground or yeeting it into the ocean

  • @jimmysuryadi3017
    @jimmysuryadi3017 Před 10 měsíci

    Fourth state of matter is plasma, not supercritical fluid.

  • @glenncahn1007
    @glenncahn1007 Před 9 měsíci

    10 minutes of chemistry geekiness, and you end by saying “It’s not practical.” If it were practical, everyone would be doing it and there wouldn’t be a problem with forever chemicals. So given my interest in chemistry is zero, this video was just a waste of my time.

    • @Jay-ho9io
      @Jay-ho9io Před 9 měsíci

      You come on in front of the entire internet and admit that you spent 10 minutes of your life watching something you're not interested in and you think the problem is with someone else? Dunning Krueger club, party of you.

  • @carlosvalle2387
    @carlosvalle2387 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thank you for wearing a better belt, but your boxers were still visible (at least not as much as before)...its distracting and unprofessional.

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada Před 10 měsíci +3

      I didn't even notice that.
      I think unnecessary nitpicking of irrelevant minor clothing details is more unprofessional than that, frankly. Also kinda rude, and pointless.

    • @Jay-ho9io
      @Jay-ho9io Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@IstasPumaNevadarudely irrelevant pretty much describes his entire life, I'm willing to bet.

  • @photonic
    @photonic Před 10 měsíci +2

    10:12 Chemical weapons actually can be incinerated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooele_Chemical_Agent_Disposal_Facility

  • @willemvandebeek
    @willemvandebeek Před 10 měsíci +2

    1:32 Who's a good boy? 🦮 Oh no, the doggo is leaving the room! 😭
    Great video, learned a lot from this, like that salt not being solvable in supercritical water is news to me and kinda make sense... unless the salt ions also become a gaseous at certain temperatures, maybe they rise to the top then, I dunno... 🤷
    I think I also heard you hosting in an animated Ted-Ed video. Is this true or was that my imagination?