Fig. 5: Pilot-scale water treatment applications.

a Electronic photographs of the mobile sorption treatment system with (b) a schematic diagram. c Breakthrough curves of four PFAS in the mobile sorption treatment system filled with hydrogel particles (~ 5 mm in size) treating PFAS-contaminated tap water (TW). (d) Desorption curves of four PFAS using saline-MeOH mixture eluents. e Enrichment factor (EF) for the regeneration of the sorption treatment system and the final concentration of four PFAS in the eluent solution. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.