Re: Activated Charcoal and Chlorine

[Stan]

Yes, it does remove it and many other things for a while. Go to a home
center store and look at the water filter cartridges. You will find a
description of what each cart. can remove and more importantly, for how many
processed gallons it will work for.

My RO unit uses a standard .5 micron carbon block cart. for this purpose as
chlorine will screw up a RO membrane.

I know folks that run hatcheries on continuous drip off of city water by
running water through these standard carbon block carts.


"Kevin" > wrote in message
...
> I visit several newsgroups & and on-line discussion groups and on one of
> them the other day the claim was made that activated charcoal will remove
> chlorine. Now this was news to me. Will charcoal remove chlorine? If so,
how
> effective is it?
> Thanks
>
>

[Michalkun]

"Kevin" > wrote in
:

> I visit several newsgroups & and on-line discussion groups and on one
> of them the other day the claim was made that activated charcoal will
> remove chlorine. Now this was news to me. Will charcoal remove
> chlorine? If so, how effective is it?
> Thanks

It will only remove it to some extend but I wouldn't relay on it to remove
everything.

[NetMax]

"Kevin" > wrote in message
...
> I visit several newsgroups & and on-line discussion groups and on one
of
> them the other day the claim was made that activated charcoal will
remove
> chlorine. Now this was news to me. Will charcoal remove chlorine? If
so, how
> effective is it?
> Thanks

Carbon will remove chlorine & chloramines, but it is only half as
effective at removing the chloramines (it's operating life is cut in
half). Note that there are several grades of carbon, so the efficiency
will vary.

NetMax