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I am making a carnivorous plant terrarium, and I need this to keep the water clean. Are the carbon and charcoal the same thing?
They are pretty much the same. Charcoal is always the byproduct of something that was burned (basically a lump of carbon). Activated carbon could be from other sources, but will serve the same purpose in soil.
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Not exactly because diamond is highly compressed carbon.
It is like having a barn of hay and compress them into the size of a golf ball.
The chemical/ physical properties have completely changed!
water change every 30 days ,
blenching powder used for chlorination .
water filter through sand and carbon(Ordinary) tank.
Swimming pool size is 30 x 70 x 15 feet.
We can not see floor after 10 to 15 days but if we take water in glass it look clean.
guide us how to keep pool water clean for longer time.
The secret to keeping a pool clear? It's really no secret at all, it just involves filtration, cleaning, correct sanitizer levels for the conditions and proper water balance.This is something you need to take care of on at least a weekly basis, not just once every two weeks. If you lack one of those, then you have problems. You have one or more of those issues.
Just looking at a sample in a glass means nothing. Lake water looks pretty clear in a glass too, until you see a larger sample of it. Same with some municipal water supplies. You'd be amazed at what you drink from the tap that when put in a pool would make you think twice. It's all in the volume.
There should be no need to drain that pool at all other than once every eight years on average and even then, you can usually get away with a partial drain to bring the total dissolved solids count down.
Take a water sample in to your local pool shop for a free check. They'll be able to point out your issues. One thing for certain is that unless you've added stabilizer every time you filled that pool, it will be non existent and it's pretty important to have some in there. It helps the chlorine work.
Once you get your water balanced and are on a proper chemistry profile for your pool and you're still having issues, I'd get a tech in to look at your filtration system. There's either an issue with it or it's possible you are actually doing something wrong. I've seen people running their pool on the recirculate position, thinking that's how it's supposed to be. They wondered why their pool kept going cloudy. :) If you ask the tech, he'll likely be more than happy to show you how to run your system to get the most out of it and to keep your running costs down while at the same time, never having a water issue. It varies from pool to pool, so I can't give you much more info with so little that you've presented, to go on.
I've got an old system that I'm trying to bring back to life, but the tubing doesn't make any sense. It goes from the sediment filter to the reverse osmosis element, then splits into clean and unfiltered streams. This is where it gets weird. The two streams go to opposite sides of a PVC assembly. One part looks like it's just a screen inside of a 3/4" PVC connector assembly, and the other side enters a 3/4" tee that seems to contain a flow restrictor of some sort. The rest of that stream branches off to the carbon filter, and maybe to the 5 gal tank. The last part of the PVC tee goes to an unknown exit. But why drain filtered water? Meanwhile, the carbon filtered water seems to be unattached to anything on the output. So which is the clean water? The carbon filter exit or the R/O output that seems to rejoin with the unfiltered water????? What is that restrictor tee? What is it for? How does it keep the clean water seperate from the drain water???
Unfortunately, the company that made it has an unreadable logo. Could be RWC or KWC, and it's a 'model 51 Integrated Reverse Osmosis' system, s/n 80142.
Thanks for any light you can shed.
It's an under-sink system designed for use with a municipal water supply.
Not sure if this will help but it's all I could find. Good luck...
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when you dirnk water it has carbon right becase i saw this program that they clean water with activated carbon i whant a filter is carbon bad for you of does nothing to you.
Activated carbon does not dissolve in water.
Activated carbon filters remove impurities such as organics and some metals and anions.
Considering that companies like Britta and Pur make their living off of removing these impurities, they're not going to use any material that has a potential for harming humans.
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