Beginner’s Guide to Charcoal Water Filters Ancient Water Filtration

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Beginner’s Guide to Charcoal Water Filters: Ancient Water Filtration
What is Charcoal?
Charcoal is also carbon. Charcoal becomes activated when millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms open up due to its mixture with oxygen.
History of Activated Charcoal
The Egyptians and Sumerians were the very first people to produce and use charcoal as a fuel to reduce some elements in the process of manufacturing bronze.
How Does Activated Charcoal Work?
In reality, there are only two methods by which activated carbon may be able to remove pollutants from water
Different Types of Carbon Filters
Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC)
Has a relatively smaller particle size
Granular Activated Carbon (GAC)
Presents a larger surface to volume ratio.
PAC Powdered Block filters
Powdered carbon block filters allow carbon particles to maintain their initial position relative to each other.
Issues with Powdered Carbon Filters
Reducing particle sizes can very much enhance the capability of the filter to remove contaminants with similarly small particle sizes
GAC Filters
It contains an outer housing which is commonly shaped like a cylinder and carries carbon.
Issues with GAC Filters
A common problematic concern with GAC filters is that, as water travels through the filter, it finds the path in the loose carbon bed where there is least resistance.
Whole House Carbon Filter
It increases clarity of an entire home’s water by removing residue deposits.
Advantages of Whole House Carbon-based Filters
This is basically because it is most famous for removing traces of chlorine effectively,
Disadvantages of using carbon-based water filter
If the filter is stacked and remained unused for a long period of time (a month at least), bacteria will surely multiply inside it.