Water Filter
Omni TO1-SS Carbon Wrapped Whole House Replacement Water Filter Cartridge
(Tools Hardware) Omni Corporation
NSF certified
Included in Whole House Water Filters R14 (1653-1022), U24, and U25 (1653-7508)
Reduces taste, odor, chlorine
Price:
$6.49
$7.56
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I spend $35 to replace the carbon filter on my water filter/pitcher every few months. Would the activated carbon used by home distillers be as good an option to filter my water? The exact brand I'm thinking about is Prestige stone activated carbon (.4-1.4mm), and I would be running it through a coffee filter in the existing housing on my water pitcher.
Can any chemists - amateur or professional - tell me if this would be a good or bad idea?
Not sure but if you want more information on filters look up the website for a company callled CUNO.
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Price:
$12.34
$10.40
Easy to install in under sink water filter systems
Reduces extra-fine dirt, sand, sediment, silt, rust particles, and scale particles
Water filter life up to 3 months or 250 gallons.
Carbon filters work by absorption.
Once the filter is full, it's dead and should be replaced.
Price:
$10.60
$10.60
3,000 Gallon capacity
Standard 2-7/8-inch OD x 9-3/4-inch Length
Meets all plumbing codes
I own a Katadyn Combi water filter. Carbon refill packets for it are expensive. There are many places to buy activated carbon in bulk relatively cheap. Physically it's a trivial matter to buy in bulk and use it in the filter but I'm wondering about the quality of the carbon, the form of the carbon and how suited it is for the filter or anything else I need to be aware of when buying carbon in bulk.
I think you might be in for more trouble than its worth. Activated carbon will come in a powder form, most likely. So then you'd have to open the filters, dump out the old stuff, and hope your system has enough pressure to push through that much carbon.
I would look into some heavy research on the fabrication of carbon filters before I tried to do something like that.
Its sort of like saying "gas is expensive, i think i'll just buy oil on the open market, and refine it at home to make the gasoline."
It seems like a waste to throw it out. Does the carbon have any other use around the home?
It is full of impurities from the water that passed through it. You could regenerate it by driving off the impurities with heat which you don't have enough of at home. Throw it away.
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