Anthracite Filter Media For Water Treatment

Anthracite filter media has high carbon fixation value, up to 90%.
Competitive anthracite coal price.
Wide range of sizes available.
The large existing stocks of anthracite coal.
Anthracite media for water treatment offers superior filtration, durability, and low impurities, perfect for industrial and municipal applications.

What’s Anthracite?

Anthracite is a type of coal, and is the coal with the highest carbon content. Like most minerals, anthracite coal is formed over millions of years of deposited plant layers, combined with pressure and temperature.

Anthracite coal has high fixed carbon content, low volatilization rate, high density and high hardness. Anthracite smokeless coal is black and has a metallic luster. Generally, carbon content is about 80%, up to 90%, volatile content under 0.2%-7%. No gelatinous layer thickness.

Specification of anthracite filter media as follows:

Project
size	mm	0.8-1.6mm, 1-2mm, 2-4mm, can be customized
Fixed carbon	%	70%-90%, can be customized
Porosity	%	45
Density	g/cm	1.4-1.6
Ash content	%	≤8
Moisture content	%	≤0.6%

Of all the carbon materials, this black and rather shiny mineral is the hardest of them all. Thus, it is also known as anthracite hard coal. The anthracite for water filtration is usually specially selected from deeper mines, where, due to higher pressures, the carbon content is typically even greater.

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Anthracite Filtration Media for Water Treatment

Why is anthracite used in filtration? Why anthracite is used as water filter medium? Next will show you anthracite coal use in water treatment.

In basic terms, filter media are materials that facilitate the passing of raw untreated water through them, while retaining any impure particle matter, allowing now cleaner water to pass through. Every filter medium has specific characteristics such as size, weight, activated or not, gravity. All of these characteristics result in different performance for certain filtering tasks – compromises between them are often sought to provide the best performing or lower priced system.

Anthracite’s broad tolerance of contaminants and ease of forming it into a filtration grade product make it a popular choice.

For drinking water, wastewater filtration and water for industrial use, anthracite has ideal properties for water purifying and clarifying. Anthracite media for water treatment can be utilised in combination with other sand filters, or as a component of dual-media or multi-media filtration systems. For example, after being processed in a coal washing plant, anthracite can be turned into filter medium and used in combination with pebbles, quartz sand and activated carbon.

Because of its ideal properties, relative ubiquity and ease of use, anthracite as a water filter medium is one of the most widely used around the world.

Heycarb Anthracite Media Functions for Water Filtration

Anthracite filter media removes organic matter from water.
Anthracite filter media removes heavy metals from water.
Anthracite filter media removes ammonia nitrogen from water.
Anthracite filter media improves water quality.
Anthracite filter media increases water treatment efficiency.

Anthracite VS Activated Carbon

After reading the above text, you may have doubts: Is anthracite the same as activated carbon? What’s the difference between anthracite and activated carbon?

Anthracite media is used in the filtration process to remove particulate matter that has settled out of solution.

Anthracite is generally used as a filter material at the front end of activated carbon. Some pebbles, quartz sand or manganese sand are generally placed at the front end of anthracite. This removes large molecular harmful substances that activated carbon cannot remove,

because the pores of activated carbon are adsorbed inside the activated carbon to remove small molecular harmful substances.

Usually, anthracite and various stone filter media are backwashed.
Activated carbon is regenerated by high temperature. Backwashing can only remove some harmful molecules on the surface. Harmful molecules adsorbed inside the activated carbon can only be regenerated by high temperature.

Anthracite filter media can also remove particulate matter from fluids through adsorption. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Generally, diffusion into the pores is generally not present. And it is easy to remove adsorbate by stirring during backwashing.

GAC (Granular Activated Carbon) consists of PAC (Powdered Activated Carbon) particles aggregated together. PAC is produced by driving off volatiles and burning off carbon, increasing the pores in the carbon particles until they resemble molecular sponges.

The unique pore structure enables it to selectively remove certain molecules while leaving others behind. where they diffuse into the pores and are absorbed. In this case, precipitation is not necessary.

On the other hand, backwashing does not remove material that has been absorbed into the pores and can only be removed by the regeneration process.

Heycarbons Anthracite Advantages

Heycarb anthracite has a high carbon fixation value of up to 90%.
Heycarb factory has superb coal washing technology.
Through gravity coal separation, select the filter material gravity suitable for water treatment.
Heycarb can provide: F.C >86% , low ash washed anthracite for mineral / drinking / waste water purification.

Anthracite Price per ton for Water Filtration

Heycarb Team offers competitive anthracite coal price of $100-300.

If you have needs to purchase anthracite, please contact Heycarb Team, Heycarb will provide you with professional advice, competitive anthracite filter media price per ton and high-grade anthracite products.

At the same time, it has a better water filtration result to use anthracite and activated carbon together. Heycarb Team also provides coal activated carbon and coconut shell activated carbon for water treatment.