What Is The Role of Activated Carbon In Water Treatment?

The main function of activated carbon filters for water treatment is adsorption, which can absorb the bad smell and odor in water to improve the taste of water. It has a good effect on the removal of harmful substances in water, and can effectively filter free substances, microorganisms, and some heavy metal ions in water. Reduce the color of water, improve the degree of water purification, and prolong the service life of equipment, while preventing pollution, especially to prevent the free state of ion exchange resin residual chlorine poisoning pollution. It is a water purification material commonly used in the pretreatment filter of water treatment equipment.

What Does a Carbon Filter Do?

Carbon filtration in water treatment is mainly used in domestic water, food, industry, chemical, electric power, and other industrial water purification, dechlorination, oil removal, and deodorization.

What Do Carbon Filters Remove From Water?

What do activated carbon filters remove from water? Activated carbon can remove residual chlorine, parasites, and microplastics in water. , 63% ~ 86% colloidal substances, about 50% iron, 47% ~ 60% organic substances, radioactive substances, free substances, microorganisms (bacteria, E. coli), some heavy metal ions (mercury, silver, cadmium, chromium, lead, nickel), trihalomethanes, and some pesticides (aromatic compounds, pesticides), etc. And activated carbon has a deodorization effect, can effectively remove the water easy to produce odor substances such as petroleum, phenol, high quality activated carbon algae, let the water become clean and clear, and reduce the color of organic matter, so as to improve the removal efficiency of organic matter; With strong adsorption capacity, it plays an irreplaceable role in water purification equipment.

Why Does Activated Carbon Filter Water?

Because activated carbon is mostly refined from coconut shells as raw material, in the activation process, each carbon forms A large number of fine pores of various shapes, the pore structure is very developed (5-8 times that of ordinary activated carbon), so its specific surface area is very large and the surface is covered with micropores with an average diameter of 20 ~ 30 Angie (A), pollutants can be captured in the table area, Therefore, it has a high adsorption capacity.

Advantages of Activated Carbon Filter From Water

1. Activated carbon filters for water have high working accuracy and strong adsorption capacity. It can filter and absorb most harmful substances to ensure the filtered water quality.
2. Fast adsorption speed, high adsorption capacity, durable
3. Strong flow performance of activated carbon filter
4. The equipment structure is simple and easy to clean (effective backwash design technology) and replace, which can reduce the maintenance cost.

How Long Does a Carbon Water Filter Last?

The useful life of activated carbon filters for water depends largely on their carbon quality, use, humidity, and plant type. The life of activated carbon is divided into storage life and service life

• Storage life is in commonly 3-5 years, but it also depends on the storage environment, temperature and humidity, and the quality of the products.
• Service life is generally more than one year, backwashing stored properly can be 2 to 3 years or so, of course, it is related to water quality, and the service life of the length is not the same

It is claimed that the carbon filters can last up to four years, but we recommend replacing the activated carbon filter after 8-14 months.

Disadvantages of Activated Carbon In Water Treatment

• Although activated carbon has a great adsorption capacity, we cannot dink the water filtered out of the activated carbon directly. It needs to be used with reverse osmosis membrane/ultrafiltration membrane filtration technology to meet the standards of drinking water.
• Activated carbon mainly on organic indicators has a certain removal effect, with a period of time using, the ability of adsorption will reduce more or less.
• Activated charcoal can’t remove all harmful substances from water.

Charcoal Water Filter Side Effects:

• Activated carbon often uses as a filter material, because it can absorb pollutants in the water. With the times fly, the activated carbon surface will adsorb a large number of pollutants, if  the filter element cannot be replaced timely or backwash timely, some bacteria will make home in the water to cause physical discomfort.
• Activated carbon filters (activated charcoal) remove some fluoride, according to a study published in the Canadian Dental Association Journal. Although excessive fluoride has an impact on immune system function, moderate fluoride can enhance dental stability and maintain dental health.

How To Use Activated Carbon To Filter Water?

Before use: Please place the water filter in drinking water (pure water) for 1-2 minutes or inject clean water with a syringe to moisten the water filter. It is not recommended that to use tap water because the pores of activated carbon will absorb chlorine and bleach powder in tap water. If it is a filter bottle with a built-in straw simply fill it directly with pure water and suck it.

When using: first install the water filter straw, then add water, cover tightly, finally open the safety lock, a key to open the bottle cap, you can drink!

After use: After each use, use a syringe to reverse inject water or reverse rinse underwater, keep the filter clean, gently shake, pure water backwash, can be used 75% alcohol cleaning or soaking, stored in dry air, to extend the service life.

What are the Best activated carbon filters for water?

Using a 4-stage filtration system: hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane + activated carbon filter +PP cotton fiber + coarse filter, filtration accuracy 0.1um, activated carbon particles are small, pores, good effect, easy to filter river water, lake water, river water 99.9999%+ pollutants, to solve 220 various water threats.

Filter water bottles with 1,500L purification capacity can be used for about 6 months, and reusable water bottles with filters, are easy to replace the filter element. Both of these qualities make the water bottle a faithful companion for backpacking, hiking, traveling, camping, etc.