Activated carbon filters usually found in vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, ovens, and trash cans. The activated carbon filter is a magic filter that can take the most disgusting odour.
No matter what activities you do, smoking cigarettes, frying fishes, and light-up your chimney, the activated carbon filters will ensure your room is odourless.
Usually, the technology of activated carbon filter is used in medium filtration system such as water filtration, air purifier, and other filtration systems.
The activated carbon filters are the most popular technology because its ability that can filter, and remove contaminants in the air – as well as odours.
Activated Carbon Filter VS Charcoal Filter
Activated Carbon Filter
The carbon filter technology works through a method called adsorption. The adsorption method works to trapped pollutants through its pore structure of a carbon media.
Some of activated carbon filters are made of pure carbon that makes the activated carbon filters are effective to adsorption large volume of contaminants within its carbon filter.
About one pound of activated carbon, can contains up to 100 acres of surface area.
Carbon filtration technology works through a method called adsorption which is when pollutants in the air are treated and trapped inside of the pore structure of a carbon media. The raw carbon material is full of other substances, such as organic matter that will fill the carbon material with microscopic holes or pores in the carbon filter media. The carbon process will start by removing these substances and leaving behind a pure carbon – and the microscopic pore sizes that were filled with other substance are now empty, drastically increasing the surface space of the carbon.
An activated carbon air filter is a highly porous substance that attracts and holds organic chemical within the filter media. The media is created by burning the carbon material without oxygen which makes the carbon “char”. The char is than treated chemically to develop porous holes inside the carbon that allow the filter media to capture more pollutants in the material overtime.
Charcoal Filter
The primary difference between a water filter that uses activated carbon and one that uses charcoal is in the filtering materials themselves. Both are hard, porous substances that capture contaminants.
How do they differ?
It’s important to note first that many people use the terms activated charcoal and activated carbon interchangeably. They do have many things in common, but there is some evidence that activated carbon may be a better choice.
