Apex Nitrate Removal Filter
Nitrate is a compound that occurs naturally and also has many human-made sources. Nitrate typically gets into water through surface runoff or leakage from wastewater, landfills, fertilized soil, urban drainage or septic systems. Some groundwater has nitrate concentrations that present a health risk – especially for babies. You cannot taste, see, or smell nitrate in your water.
Our unit uses Aldex Strong Base Anion Macroporous Nitrate Selective Resin (NSR) to effectively remove arsenic from your water supply, ensuring that your family is safe from its harmful effects. With our system installed, you can have peace of mind knowing that every faucet in your home is a source of clean, safe, and nitrates-free water.
Apex Nitrate Removal Filter
Nitrate is a compound that occurs naturally and also has many human-made sources. Nitrate typically gets into water through surface runoff or leakage from wastewater, landfills, fertilized soil, urban drainage or septic systems. Some groundwater has nitrate concentrations that present a health risk – especially for babies. You cannot taste, see, or smell nitrate in your water.
Our unit uses Aldex Strong Base Anion Macroporous Nitrate Selective Resin (NSR) to effectively remove arsenic from your water supply, ensuring that your family is safe from its harmful effects. With our system installed, you can have peace of mind knowing that every faucet in your home is a source of clean, safe, and nitrates-free water.
How it works
How does a Nitrate Filter work?
Nitrate is a compound that occurs naturally and also has many human-made sources. You cannot taste, see, or smell nitrate in your water.
- Hard water enters your home from a main water pipe or well and flows through a sediment filter cartridge that removes sediment, silt, sand and dirt. The sediment filter extends the life of water softeners and water filters, as well as preventing damage to control valves or pumps.
- Next, the water flows through the nitrate filter filled with Aldex NSR. Aldex NSR is a macroporous, strong base anion which is highly selective for nitrates over sulfates. Aldex NSR’s unique functional group eliminates nitrate dumping at the end of the run even in the presence of high sulfates. Its resistance to nitrate dumping makes Aldex NSR a superior resin in nitrate removal applications. Further, the functional group used to manufacture Aldex NSR has shown a very high affinity for perchlorate, making this the resin of choice when designing non-regenerable, perchlorate remediation systems.
- Water flows out of the nitrate filter and into a water softener, to soften your water before you now experience purified and soft water throughout your home.
- The unit must be backwashed at a specified flow rate for effective removal of contaminants. The backwash frequency shall be every 24 to 48 hours for continuous operating unit.
DID YOU KNOW…
Wells vulnerable to nitrates are shallow wells, wells in sand aquifers, dug wells with casings that are not watertight, and wells with damaged or leaking casing or fittings.
Features
- Very Low Color, Taste or Odor
Aldex NSR meets the requirements for paragraph 173.25 of the Food Additive Regulation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. - Long Life
Strong and durable beads ensure long service life. - Reliability
Aldex Chemical has over 45 years of field usage by thousands of customers demonstrates the reliability of Aldex ion exchange resins, zeolites and other water treatment media.
Benefits
Below are just a few of the benefits
- Delivers filtered water to every faucet, shower, and outlet in your home or office.
- Provides nitrate-free water for ice machines, coffee makers, water fountains and refrigerators.
- Install and forget. Requires low maintenance.
- Comes with a fully automatic pre-programmed electronic control valve.
- High flow rate is suitable for residential and commercial use.
Specifications
Physical Chemical Properties
- Polymer Structure: S-DVB resin
- Appearance: Opaque beads
- Functional Group: tributylamine quaternized
- Ionic Form as shipped: Chloride
- Total Capacity, Cl form: 0.85 to .95 eq/l
- Moisture Content, Cl-form: 51 to 57%
- Mean Diameter: 600 ± 100 µm
- Uniformity Coefficient (max.): 1.6 to 1.8
- Specific Gravity: 1.06 to 1.08
- Shipping Weight (approx.): 670 to 710 g/l (42-44 lbs/ft3)
- Temp Limit, Cl- Form: 100°C
- pH limits, Stability: 0 to 14
Typical Operating Conditions
- Maximum Operating Temp.: 175°F (80°C)
- Resin bed Depth: 24″ (600 mm) minimum
- Recommended Service Flow: 1 to 4 gpm/ft3
- Backwash Expansion: 50 to 70%
- Backwash Expansion Flow Rate at 77ºF(25ºC): 1.6 to 2.5 gpm/ft2
- Regenerant: NaCl
- Regeneration level: 8 to10 lbs/cu.ft.
- Regenerant concentration: 8 to 12%
- Regeneration time: 20 to 60 minutes
- Slow rinse flow rate: At regeneration flow rate
- Fast rinse flow rate: At service flow rate
- Rinse Volume: 15 to 50 gal/ft3
- Influent Limitations
- Free Chlorine: Not traceable
- Turbidity: Less than 2 N.T.U
- Iron and Heavy metals: Less than 0.1 ppm
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I need a nitrate filter for my house?
Answer: Nitrates are more commonly found in well water. Nitrates are chemicals that get into groundwater from contamination with fertilizer, manure, or septic systems, sewage, or erosion of natural deposits. Nitrates make it hard for your red blood cells to carry oxygen. This can be dangerous for infants and some adults.
Will a Brita or refrigerator filters filter out nitrates from drinking water?
Answer: Activated carbon filters, such as those in a “Brita” water pitcher, do not remove nitrates. Reverse Osmosis is our number one recommendation for treating nitrates in your drinking water. Reverse Osmosis will effectively remove up to 95% of nitrates in your water depending on your original water temperature, quality and system pressure.
Bundle & Save
Save when you buy a whole home system (sediment filter + water softener + reverse osmosis + nitrate filter) to enjoy purified drinking water and soft household water.
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