What is reverse osmosis water purification?
Reverse osmosis water purification is one of the most practical and economical methods to purify the water you drink and use for cooking in your home. It’s the same process used by most bottled water companies to create the purified water you buy in stores. You’re just making it at home without the waste of hundreds of plastic bottles. Reverse osmosis systems have come a long way since their introduction decades ago. Today’s systems are easy to install, low maintenance, and compact enough to fit under a typical kitchen sink.
Our systems consist of five different filter stages. The water coming into your home passes through each filter individually. Each filter traps various contaminants before the water moves on to the next filter.
Let’s go over what each filter does and why it’s needed.
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Stage 1: Sediment Pre-Filter
Removes: Sediments like sand, silt, clay, and metals
The first filter stage is a sediment filter and part of pre-filtration. You may have heard the term water turbidity in your local news. Turbidity is simply contaminants suspended in water, making it cloudy or less clear. This pre-filter removes a large portion of sediment and turbidity. Sediment which is simply contaminants like sand, silt, clay, and rust is a big part of what makes turbid water. The filter removes sediment down to 5 microns. How big is a micron, you ask? Check this out.
Stage 2: Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) Filter
Removes: sediment, chlorine, pollutants, and smells
The next stage of pre-filtration is a coconut shell activated carbon filter. These are sometimes referred to as charcoal filters, and yes, they are partially made from coconut shells.
Activated carbon is one of the most effective and widely used water filtration mediums because it removes chlorine and other pollutants, improves taste, and eliminates odors.
The best way to describe carbon filters is that they are like magnets. Contaminants that make it through the sediment pre-filter are attracted to the carbon, which holds them like a magnet. Activated carbon has a huge surface area, so there’s plenty of room for contaminants to get trapped.
Chemicals like chlorine aren’t attracted to carbon. That may sound like a letdown, but don’t worry. Carbon chemically alters chlorine molecules, making them inert and removing them from your drinking water.
Stage 3: Carbon Block Filter
Removes: even more chemicals, pollutants, and smells
Carbon block filters are made of finer powdered carbon granules than the previous granular activated carbon filter. That just means it filters even smaller water contaminants and provides more room to trap and hold them.
Combining the two carbon filters can remove many contaminants from your drinking water.
- Pesticides
- Pharmaceuticals
- Herbicides
- Chlorine
- Chlorine byproducts (VOCs)
- Chloride
- Lithium
- Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid or PFOS
- Phosphate
Stage 4: Reverse Osmosis Membrane
Removes: up to 99% of 65 contaminants down to .0001 microns
After all the solids and most chemical pollutants are filtered, your water passes through a fine semipermeable membrane. Simply put, this membrane lets water through but filters almost all contaminants out.
Stage 5: Post-filtration Polishing
A final finishing stage for great taste
One last activated carbon filter for better taste and smell leaves you with delicious drinking water.
Storage
Where your purified water goes
Your purified water goes into a storage tank under your sink with a bladder that keeps it pressurized so it easily flows to a faucet.
Faucet
Purified and on tap
A special faucet is installed typically at your kitchen sink or wherever your reverse osmosis purification system is installed. Faucets come in a variety of color and finish options to compliment your home decor.
Visit our online shop to purchase your own reverse osmosis water purification system today or contact us for a free consultation.
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