Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)是一组含有几个碳氟(C-F) 键的合成化学物质，它们已经在过去的八十年中产生。PFAS已被用于几种工业和消费产品，包括不粘锅，食品包装，消防泡沫和地毯。由于其在生物环境中的普遍存在以及对饮用水源的污染，PFAS需要在全球范围内进行适当的调查。这些有害化学物质已被与不良健康效应相关联，例如肝损伤，癌症，低生育率，激素受制和甲状腺疾病。此外，这些氟化化合物表现出高化学，热力学，生物学，水解，光化学和氧化稳定性。因此，需要有效的处理过程才能清除和降解PFAS从废水，饮用水和地下水中。以前的评论论文提供了关于PFAS处理技术的优秀摘要，但焦点是消除效率，而没有提供去除/降解途径的机制理解。本综述综述了各种热和非热PFAS破坏技术的全面考察，包括声化学/超声波降解，微波水热处理，亚临界或超临界处理，电放电等离子技术，热破坏方法/焚化，低 / 高温热脱附过程，蒸气发生器(VEG)技术和机械化学破坏。本综述详细讨论了每种治理过程的背景，降解机制/途径和进展。

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a set of synthetic chemicals which contain several carbon-fluorine (C-F) bonds and have been in production for the past eight decades. PFAS have been used in several industrial and consumer products including nonstick pans, food packaging, firefighting foams, and carpeting. PFAS require proper investigations worldwide due to their omnipresence in the biotic environment and the resulting pollution to drinking water sources. These harmful chemicals have been associated with adverse health effects such as liver damage, cancer, low fertility, hormone subjugation, and thyroid illness. In addition, these fluorinated compounds show high chemical, thermal, biological, hydrolytic, photochemical, and oxidative stability. Therefore, effective treatment processes are required for the removal and degradation of PFAS from wastewater, drinking water, and groundwater. Previous review papers have provided excellent summaries on PFAS treatment technologies, but the focus has been on the elimination efficiency without providing mechanistic understanding of removal/degradation pathways. The present review summarizes a comprehensive examination of various thermal and non-thermal PFAS destruction technologies. It includes sonochemical/ultrasound degradation, microwave hydrothermal treatment, subcritical or supercritical treatment, electrical discharge plasma technology, thermal destruction methods/incinerations, low/high-temperature thermal desorption process, vapor energy generator (VEG) technology and mechanochemical destruction. The background, degradation mechanisms/pathways, and advances of each remediation process are discussed in detail in this review.