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has any one installed a reverse osmosis system | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial)
Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#14)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 11:50:22 AM MST
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Ozone...I do not trust any advertising claims, but here is a university blurb.

http://www.water-research.net/ozone.htm

Short story is: various types of electrical activity (lightning, electric motor running) can produce ozone which is O3.

O3 is very unstable and quickly degrades into an O2 which is very stable, and an O1, which is highly reactive.

The O1 aggressively attaches to iron, sulphur, bacteria, and other water-borne items. This causes the chemicals to form particulates and fall to the bottom of the water tank, or causes the bacteria to die due to reactive cellular damage.

Do not drink ozonated water until it has rested for at least 30 minutes to ensure all O1's have reacted, which typically occurs in less than 15 minutes. Ozonated water should be transferred to a holding tank for at least 30 minutes before being consumed.

As a side note from other research, De-Ionized water has some uses, but drinking it will cause a slow health degradation. When consuming DI water is stopped, health will slowly return with no permanent affects.

When working on large contaminated water filtration systems a long time ago, water was pumped through a large "easy to clean out" sand filter, and then through a large charcoal filter. Activated (baked) charcoal granules are reactive, and will suck up a wide variety of organic and inorganic chemicals.



Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#16)
by getterdone on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 05:25:06 PM MST
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activated [baked].
could i use bricketts as used in charcoal grilling?
If I were smart I'd be dangerous
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Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#18)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 09:56:39 PM MST
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I dont know about charcoal bricketts, might be possible...

The activated charcoal we used came in fine thread cloth bags. When water sampling showed the water output chemicals were rising (in parts-per-million/PPM) we would stop and swap out the bags.

I am using the Brita charcoal-filter water pitcher to clean the city water a little for my coffee in the morning. I don't know how much it helps, but it does taste better.

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Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#22)
by tanner0441 on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 03:34:24 PM MST
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Hi

 I live in the UK (North Wales)the drinking water smells like it came from a swimming pool so much chlorine, so I fitted two small filters under the sink, about 2 inches dia and 9 inches long, the first one is a micro porus ceramic filter removes particles and all the lepto type spores and cysts, the second one is a carbon block filter.  Carbon block offeres a greater surface area than particles. the complete set up including a small tap was around £50 the water is a good as any bottled water and therre is no chlorine, chlorine has been linked to colon cancer so best avoided.

Brian..


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Re: has any one installed a reverse osmosis system (3.00 / 0) (#19)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 01:06:43 AM MST
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getterdone
  Short answer NO   bbq bricketts have chemical
binders in them that would not be good for your health.
  Some where the federal gov. has guidelines and plans online for a cistern filter.seems like i remember it was a 3 stage filter.
 Pea gravel--sand--activated charcoal
It has been a long time,so i don't remember how i found it.
later
Elvin  

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