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What Do Carbon Filters Remove From Water?
What do Carbon Filters Remove?
Carbon filters have extremely high adsorption capabilities and can remove a wide variety of contaminants including VOCs, pesticides, nitrates, hydrogen sulfide, and much more.
Below, we've created a comprehensive list of contaminants that granular activated carbon filters (commonly referred to as GAC filters) are known to remove. Learn more about how carbon filters work and the difference between GAC and carbon block filters.
When it comes to carbon block filters, their ability to remove contaminants depends on the filter micron rating of the filter. A variety of contaminants can be effectively reduced or removed by carbon block, including VOCs, THMs, mercury, chlorine, and more. Some carbon block filters rated at one micron or less (meaning they have very small pore size) are certified to remove lead, iron, arsenic, cysts, and coliform bacteria.
Carbon provides an excellent and proven application for the reduction or removal of the following contaminants:
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Acetaldehyde Acetone Alcohols Amy Acetate Amy Alcohol Antifreeze Benzene Bleach Butyl Alcohol Butyl Acetate Calcium Hypochlorite Chloral Chloramine Chloroform Chlorine Chlorobenzene Chlorophenol Chlorophyll Citric Acid Cresol Defoilants Diesel Fuel Dyes Ethyl Acrylate Ethyl Alcohols Ethyl Acetate Ethyl Amine Ethyl Ether Gasoline Glcols Herbicides Hydrogen Peroxide Hypochlorous Acid Insecticides Iodine Isopropyl Acetate Isopropyl Alcohol Ketones Lactic Acids Mercaptans Methyl Acetate |
Methyl Alcohol Methyl Bromide Methyl Chloride Methyl Ethyl Ketone Naphtha Nitrobenzene Nitrotoluene Odors (General) Oil-Dissolved Organic Acids Organic Esters Organic Salts Oxalic Acid Oxygen Ozone PCB's Pesticides Phenol Plastic Tastes Potassium Permanganate Propioic Acid Propyl Acetate Propyl Alcohol Propyl Chloride Radon Rubber Hose Taste Sodium Hypochlorite Solvents Sulphonated Oils Tannins Tar Emulsion Tartaric Acid Taste THM's Toluene Toluidine Trichlorethylene Turpentine Xanthophyll Xylene |
How Do Carbon Filters Work? >>
Learn more about how carbon filters work and why carbon filtration is used in almost every type of water filter system. From backpacking water filters, refrigerator water filters, shower filters, pitcher filters, or reverse osmosis water filters, carbon filtration is utilized in some way.