Water Purification & Filtration Dictionary
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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items. |
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The stream of water to be treated as it flows into any kind of water treatment unit or device, such as hard water into a water softener or turbid water into a filter.
Chemical substances which do arise from the process of living growth, are composed of matter other than plant or animal matter. And don't contain hydrocarbons of compounds basically carbon structure. Examples are minerals and metals.
The connecting or setting up and start up operation of any water treatment system.
A nonmetallic element which is the heaviest and least reactive of the naturally occurring halogens. It may be use for disinfection. In both its liquid and vapor forms, iodine is readily adsorbed by activated carbon.
A reversible chemical process in which ions from an insoluble permanent solid medium (the "ion exchanger" usually resin) are exchanged for ions in a solution or fluid mixture surrounding the insoluble medium.
A very common element often present in groundwater in amounts ranging from 0.01 to 10.0 ppm (mg/L) Iron can be found in three forms
1. Soluble form as in ferrous bicarbonate.
2. Bound with a soluble organic compound
3. As suspended ferric iron particles
Bacteria which thrives on iron and are able to actually use ferrous iron (as found in water or steel pipes) in their metabolic processes, to incorporate ferric iron in their cell structure, and to deposit gelatinous ferric hydroxide iron compounds in their life processes.
The accumulation of iron on or within an ion exchange resin bed or filter medium in such amounts that the capacity of the medium is reduced.
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