Considered the best performing agent for eliminating pollutants from commercial, municipal, and industrial waste waters, polluted groundwater, and other toxins that can enter the ground from landfills and dumps, activated carbon is the most effective mineral adsorbent available. Because of this, it is able to treat an array of pollutants — and it is not uncommon to find a variety of pollutants within one water source.
Activated carbon has the ability to treat the entire source of water or to remove additional contaminants from water that has already been treated using another method. Additionally, it can also be applied to multilevel treatment protocols.
Industrial and Municipal Water Recycling
While ecological safety is very important, recycling water within industrial and manufacturing operations provides diminished environmental effects while lowering the costs typically spent on purifying waste water. Activated Carbon can treat many different types of contaminants found in water, including a variety of organic and non-organic materials and compounds like pesticides, industrial wastes, non-biodegradable compounds, dyes, and more.
Why Activated Carbon is the Preferred Choice
Being able to absorb such a wide array of contaminants is just one reason why so many industries use it. It is also very cost-effective. Clear water is thought to be pure, but it isn’t necessarily clean of toxins — which is the reason why many industries turn to activated carbon for their water purification processes.
Well-known for superior quality results, activated carbon continues to be used throughout the world, in a wide range of applications within water treatment. Whether for drinking water, industrial effluent, or groundwater remediation, activated carbon delivers consistent, proven performance.
UCI Carbons for Water Treatment
UCI Carbons supplies both granular activated carbon (GAC) and powdered activated carbon (PAC) grades specifically designed for water treatment applications. Our coconut shell and coal-based granular carbons offer high hardness numbers and excellent adsorption capacity for water purification systems of all scales.