I've been reading and hearing conflicting info about charcoal filters and its ability or inability to remove chlorine. I don't have room to store 300 gallons of water to off gas it so I'm looking into what filters I could run that would be plumbed in to an auto top off. my water is treated with 1 ppm of chlorine, no chloramines ever says the water company. any suggestions? ideas? thoughts?
chlorine removal
- Thread starter BichirKing
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You should be able to get a house filtration system that removes chlorine and connects directly to your cold water tap from home depot easily.
exactly what I was thinking. I saw that if it isn't an r.o. system then they use charcoal filters, and I've read conflicting info about charcoals ability to truly remove the chlorine not just mask the taste and smell.
Is that the same as carbon block filters? I was looking into initially, but with the chloramine near the limit of 4ppm, it wasn't worth the effort for me.
I have a three carbon block RO/DI system that readily removes 2ppm chloramine, well over 250 gallons and still producing 0ppm chloramime/chlorine.
what i've read the chlorine removal is done with the ro side of the filter, which also strips the water of trace minerals. that's what I would like to avoid.
In my initial research, chlorine is first removed before the membrane so that it doesn't damage the membrane and that some RO filter systems forces the water to pass through the carbon to do this first. So you can have a carbon filter without the membrane, and chlroine contact time with carbon isn't required to be as high as chloramine contact time with carbon.