AQUALEN

AQUALEN is a material unique in its properties, developed and patented by AQUAPHOR specialists. The advantages of using this material for household water purification are so great that today it is used in almost all AQUAPHOR filters.

The advantages of AQUALEN include:

high impurity removal rate,

effective removal of heavy metals from water of any hardness,

increased bacteriostatic (active silver),

no channel effects and complete water purification.

Domestic water treatment differs from industrial water treatment in that all harmful impurities must be retained very quickly and in an extremely small volume. Traditionally, water filters use activated carbon as the main "working" substance. Water, passing through the filter, comes into contact with coal granules, leaving some of the harmful impurities on them. Some contaminants are stopped mechanically (the surface of the granules can be simply called rough), others are chemically bound.

AQUAPHOR filters are no exception: we use high-quality activated carbon made from coconut shells. In addition to coal, the filters use ion exchange resin - a substance that allows you to retain heavy metal ions in exchange for sodium or hydrogen ions. The resin has the form of round granules made of polymeric materials (ion exchangers). It was the role of the ion-exchange resin that was taken over by AQUALEN.

Unlike traditional resin, AQUALEN has the form of fibers, which significantly increases the possibilities of filters based on it:

Filters with AQUALEN quickly absorb impurities by increasing the area of ​​contact with water.

AQUALEN more effectively captures and retains heavy metals, while showing amazing selectivity (selectivity): heavy metals have 800 times higher bond strength with AQUALEN ion-exchange complexes than, for example, calcium and magnesium (the cause of water hardness). This means that AQUALEN recognizes and absorbs heavy metals at any water hardness, which is inaccessible to traditional filters. In addition, with the same mass, the number of active ion-exchange groups in AQUALEN (it is they that capture heavy metals) is ten times higher than that of a conventional ion-exchange resin. Filters with AQUALEN better fight bacteria.

Thanks to the properties just described, an original way of fixing silver in the filter in the most active ionic form became possible.

When using AQUALEN with granular sorbents, an extremely useful synergistic effect arises (i.e., the resulting mixture has properties that are not inherent in the original components).

More about synergy

Stationary filters have two problems: the inability to use fine sorbents and the occurrence of channel effects.

The smaller granule size provides a larger area of ​​contact with water in the same filter volume, which means that the water is cleaned better. However, in conventional filters, it simply will not flow through a dense layer of fine sorbent. In AQUAPHOR filters, AQUALEN fibers are well wetted with water, thereby loosening the layer of small granules and facilitating the passage of water. In practice, this means that AQUAPHOR filters use half the size of granules than conventional filters, and the rate of pollutant extraction is 4 times higher.

The channel effect is the movement of sorbent granules that are not bonded to each other in any way under the action of a water flow. Passing through the filter, the water "pushes" the granules, forming channels through which it flows without proper cleaning. The use of AQUALEN allows you to fix the sorbent granules. In much the same way that plant roots hold soil, AQUALEN fibers prevent sorbent movement and channeling, allowing you to clean all the water that passes through the filter.