10" ultra pure water filter

To produce pure water gets more and more important with increasing concentrations of harmful substances in the tap water. Many aquarists have to produce pure water with reverse osmosis units. The advantages of this technique: simple to handle, high rejections of substances, no chemical compounds, automatically operation possible.

But in some areas tap water contains high concentrations of silica and nitrate. Silica is used to take care the tap water system of corrosion. Sometimes you can measure more than 20 mg/l (ppm) silica in tap water. Nitrate is a problem caused by the agricultural industry. In German tap water 50 mg/l is the maximum concentration - in the European Community 25 mg/l.

If the tap water contains more than 50 mg/l nitrate of more than 1 mg/l silica the best low pressure reverse osmosis unit is not able to reduce these substances below a harmless concentration for marine aquariums. Good units reduce nitrate and silica only to 80-90%.

If you use water with nitrate and especially silica a massive population of algae (green, blue green and diatoms) can grow. Most times you can see them as a greasy dark brown and green film that grows over stones, sand and animals. If these films get to thick they can kill bentic animals like corals. Additionally these films looks not good.

The AquaCare Ultra Pure Water Filter contains a resin that changes positive ions (cations) with H⁺ and negative ions with OH^-. The changed H⁺ and OH^- combine to neutral water H₂O. The result is water of over 99,9% quality without salts like silica and nitrate. The ultra pure water is of best quality for fresh and sea water, tropical plants and technical purpose.

The AquaCare Ultra Pure Water Filter is easy to install. You have to mount it simply after a reverse osmosis unit. If the reverse osmosis unit runs the filter produces ultra pure water without harmful substances.

Dependence of the electrical conductivity of the water passes through an AquaCare Ultra Pure Water Filter:

• Filter housing with mounting material (optional ready fixed on reverse osmosis unit;
  Attention! On RO unit fixed filters may change the wide of the RO unit. Custom-made products are excluded from conversion rights.
• refillable empty cartridge
• high-grade ion exchange resin
• Detailed mounting and operation manual

Size: 10"
Dimensions: 15 x 15 x 31 cm
Volume: 0.7 litres
Connectors: 6 mm push fit fittings (others on request)
Resin: ion change resin type: 1 (H+ and OH- form)
Mixture: 38-42% strong acid component and 56-62% strong alkaline component
Bulk density: 665 - 740 g/l
Operation temperature: 4 - 60°C
minimum electrical conductivity after a reverse osmosis unit: < 0.1 µS/cm
Capacity: approx. 1000 litres*
life time at 5 liters ultra pure water per day: 6-7 months*

* data for reverse osmosis water with a conductivity of 15 µS/cm

Leaflet

Instruction manual

Info: Reverse Osmosis Technique

FAQ: Ultra pure water

Technical units driven with water may leak as a basic principle and can cause water damages. If secondary damages are possible the unit should be protected by using leaking detectors, drip pan or others.