| Many home water filters use either a matted material | | | | which the industrial water filtration units are able to |
| which is layers of fibers which trap contaminates or | | | | cleanse water is so efficient that it is able to remove |
| charcoal filters which trap contaminates because | | | | over 90 percent of contaminates over 5 microns; |
| charcoal is naturally charged with positive ions; these | | | | microns are the unit of measurement filtration systems |
| positive ions attract the contaminates which are | | | | use to describe the size of contaminates allowed to |
| naturally charged with negative ions. Industrial water | | | | escape the filtration process, the smaller the number in |
| filters are designed for removing manufacturing | | | | microns the more contaminates it removes from the |
| wastes such as chemicals, heavy metals, or oily | | | | water. This type of industrial water filtration unit is often |
| residues; power plants, oil refineries, steel and aluminum | | | | a large tank which is able to cleanse water in large |
| plants, chemical producers, soil Reclamation and other | | | | batches; no chemicals are required because the media |
| like businesses have need for industrial water filters to | | | | and screen take all contaminates out of the water |
| minimize the amount of harmful waste to leave their | | | | before it is released. Most industrial water filtration |
| manufacturing process. Instead of charcoal or meshed | | | | tanks are able to cleanse between 100 to 12,000 |
| material to filter the water, industrial water filters use | | | | gallons per minute depending on the size of the tank. |
| sand or walnut shell media and a screen to filter large | | | | This type of industrial water filtration unit is very |
| amounts of water with the aide of an agitator to | | | | economical; the media product is reusable, the tank has |
| thoroughly clean the factories water. The media (either | | | | a cleaning cycle which cleans the media itself so the |
| sand or walnut shell) captures the solid particles such | | | | same media material can be used over and over. |
| as oils, chemicals, or heavy metals; the agitation allows | | | | During the cleaning process less than one percent of |
| the sand to connect with the water thoroughly and the | | | | the water is needed to be sprayed of he tanks total |
| screen in combination with the agitator force the media | | | | capacity to get rid of the built up contaminates with out |
| back to the bottom of the industrial water filtration unit | | | | polluting the environment. |
| when the cleaning process is finished so the clean | | | | Ann Marier has written many articles on health |
| water can be discharged from the unit. The system | | | | problems and useful house and garden Topics. |