AQUAPHOR® Corporation Water Purification

AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Water purification
AQUAPHOR® is the largest home water filter manufacturer in Russia
with more than 1.000 full-time employees including more than 60
chemists and engineers with decades of experience in this branch.
AQUAPHOR® manufacturing facilities include state-of-the-art production of fibrous adsorbents, carbon blocks, plastic moulding and filter
assembly.
The Research Department includes chemical, microbiological, mechanical, automation and design laboratories.
AQUAPHOR® water filters have been tested and approved for sale in
EU countries and other countries.
The outstanding quality of water filters is verified by more than 30 international patents.
AQUAPHOR® production quality is certified by
LGA with full correspondence of highest European
& international standards.
(An Aquaphor Prestige pitcher with a B100-5 cartridge was tested)
AQUAPHOR® Management Quality System is
certified by TUV (Essen, Germany) according to
the ISO 9001:2000 Standard.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Filtering system AQUAPHOR® Viking
Water purifying system - multipurpose filtering system
This modern water purifying system is based on sorption method, providing superior filtration of active chlorine, organic impurities, heavy metal ions,
rust and unpleasant smell. Advantages include high filtration rate (25 l/min),
superior efficiency and excellent quality of water purification.
"According to experts, a personʼs body when taking a 20-minute shower in chlorine water is exposed to the same quantity of chlorine as when drinking 2 litres of
not purified tap water."
(American Journal of Epidemiology, April 2007)
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
The filter housings
The filter housings are manufactured in three sizes. Depending on the used cartridge the system can fulfil different water purifying tasks with various filtration
rates and efficiency.
Compact design of the smaller models enables them to also be installed in tight
conditions. Thanks to the unique wall bracket and quick connector it is easy to
replace the cartridge even in difficult to reach places.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
The filter details
[1] Quick connector (American style), external threads 3/4"
[2] Stainless steel housing of food industry
quality.
[3] Fastening which ensures tight impermeability of the housing and makes replacement of a filtering cartridge easier.
[4] Filtering cartridge, which consists of
two coaxially placed carbon blocks.
[5] A carbon block with large porosity (20
microns) is made of active carbon and
chelate ion-exchange micro fibre.
[6] Internal extra dense carbon block (5
microns) for better water purification
properties.
In designing and manufacturing of AQUAPHOR® multipurpose filtering system
the most up-to-date water purification solutions of AQUAPHOR® water purification solutions have been implemented.
Due to its high filtration rate and superior efficiency this system is used not only in
city apartments and summer cottages but also in nurseries, schools, cafes and
restaurants, in hotels, hospitals and industrial enterprises, in coffee makers and
ice makers: in a word everywhere, where there is a need to get clean water
quickly and in big quantities.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Aqualen®
patented fibre adsorbents
Aqualen® is based on a new generation chelating ion-exchange fibre adsorbent.
Thanks to its special design it reacts with heavy metal ions 780 times better than
with calcium and magnesium ions. This means that even very hard water does
not obstruct of quicksilver, tin, copper and cadmium ions removal.
Dynamic recovery method of silver
Unique dynamic recovery method of silver is used in AQUAPHOR® filter mixes.
Initially silver is bind in Aqualen® in the most active form, i.e. as ions. This enables the bacteriostatic efficiency of the filter to be increased and at the same
time its silver content to be reduced.
Filtering efficiency
Ordinary carbon block has several disadvantages. As carbon is largely waterrepellent, it creates channel effects and “dead” spaces. Due to this filter efficiency
may fall down to 50%.
AQUAPHOR® active carbon blocks contain Aqualen® and thus they are free
from mentioned disadvantages. As Aqualen® is very water-retaining, such a carbon block may be viewed as a water conducting ion-exchange matrix containing
active carbon granules. As a result water flows through the entire filter.
Filtering without pressure losses
Thanks to these fibres, which are very water-repellent AQUAPHOR® filter cartridges are characterised by reduced hydrodynamic resistance and increased filtering speed. Such cartridges have excellent water purifying properties with
minimum pressure losses.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Aqualen® versus competing selective ion-exchange resins
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*- total chelating centres content per g of dry material.
** - calculated as GM/GCa.CM/CCa, where GI - concentration of the component in adsorbent; CI - concentration of the component in solution.
Size of the activated carbons particles which are used in the Aquaphor filters is several times
smaller than the activated carbon particles in the traditional water filters.
It allows the effective outer surface and speed of adsorption to be increased.
The gaps between the particles are filled with the ion-exchange fibres.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Lead removal
'Ionac SR-5 is a registered trademark of Sybron Corp. (USA).
''Chelex 20 is a registered trademark of Bio-Rad (USA).
The main reason of superior performance of all Aqualen® filters is Aqualen® fibres compressed with the powder activated carbon and ion-exchange resins.
Bacteriostatic effect
Bacteriostatic testing of pitcher filters according to the NSF 42 method.
Patented bacteriostatic Aqualen® fibres comprise imbedded silver micro crystals and silver
ions.
Silver migrates between Aqualen® fibres and the outer surface of the activated carbon particles.
A very small and constant concentration of silver is present in the filtered water as result.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Installation
The filtering system is installed in the location cold and hot water pipes enter into
the apartment (1) ensuring that all incoming water is perfectly clean with end filtering rate of 5 microns. If you have independent water heating systems you can
install only the filter for the cold-water entrance.
If you do not want a separate drinking water filter with a separate tap in your
kitchen, in order not to drill a hole in your sink, you can install a special Viking filter (2) in the pipe under the mixer and all water in your kitchen turns into excellent
drinkable water (1 micron of finish purification efficiency).
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]
Replacement cartridges for purifying drinking water
The cartridge is made of a carbon block of differential porosity acting by the sorption principle. Water shall be perfectly purified not only from rust, sand and other
non-soluble additives and active chlorine but also from phenol, heavy metals and
pesticides.
The chemists of the quality control laboratory are highly experienced. This laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical devices including an atomic
spectrometer, capillary electrophoresis, gas chromatograph, UV spectrometers
and filter quality testing systems according to the NFS 42, NSF 53 and EPA microbiological protocols.
All products and their production are certified for purifying drinking tap water by
the national State Certification Agency.
The water filters have been tested and approved for sale in several EU countries,
South Korea, Singapore and other countries.
AQUAPHOR® Corporation
Pionerskaya 27 A, 197110 Sankt Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.aquaphor-water.eu - E-mail: [email protected]