Activated Carbon For Swimming Pool Heycarbons Manufacturer From China

Swimming pools are public places. Through filtration, disinfection, activated carbon adsorption and other treatment methods, we ensure that the water is clear and has a fresh smell, improve the water quality, and protect the health and experience of swimmers.

Why does swimming pool water need to be treated?

Swimming pools are public places. In order to ensure the health and safety of swimmers and maintain a good water quality environment, they need to be treated.

Swimmers will bring sweat, urine, saliva, dandruff, cosmetics, etc. into the water. These organic substances provide nutrients for bacteria and algae. If not disinfected in time, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungi, etc. will breed in the water, which may cause health problems such as skin diseases, eye diseases, and ear diseases.

Untreated pool water is prone to algae, causing the water to turn green and slippery. Suspended particles, foam, grease, etc. can also make the water turbid and ugly.

After chlorination, swimming pool water will produce byproducts such as hydrogen chloride, chloramines, and trihalomethanes, which may be irritating, allergenic, and even potentially toxic.

All these factors will lead to deterioration of water quality, affecting the health of swimmers and the service life of swimming pool facilities. In order to ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of swimming pool water, regular cleaning is essential. As an excellent adsorbent, activated carbon plays a vital role in purifying pool water.

Treatment methods such as filtration, disinfection, and activated carbon adsorption ensure that the water is clear, smells fresh, and improves the water quality to protect the health and experience of swimmers.

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Activated Carbon For Swimming Swimming Pool Water Circulation System

How to use activated carbon for swimming pool?

The following shows the process and function of swimming pool filtration:

1. Hair collector

It is mainly used in the swimming pool circulating water treatment system as a pre-filtration treatment to remove hair, fibrous materials and large suspended matter in the water to prevent them from entangled in the impeller of the circulating water pump and ensure the normal operation of subsequent system equipment.

2. Flocculant

The role of adding flocculant is to separate water and impurities quickly and thoroughly.

3. Quartz sand filter

The water pump is used to pressurize the raw water to pass through the filter medium to remove suspended matter in the water, thereby achieving the purpose of filtration. Features: The operation can be automatically controlled, with high filtration efficiency, low resistance, large processing flow and few backwash times.

4. Activated carbon adsorption

The activated carbon is loaded into the filter, and the physical and chemical adsorption properties of the activated carbon are used to remove impurities in the liquid to purify the liquid.

5. Softener

Also known as ion exchanger, ion exchanger is used to reduce the hardness of water. Raw water is softened by passing through the exchanger from top to bottom. The magnesium, calcium, and cations contained in the water are exchanged with the sodium ions of the water exchange agent, making it difficult for carbonate scale and sulfate scale to form in the water, thus obtaining softened water.

6. Heating system

Heating system mainly adjusts water temperature.

7. Ultraviolet disinfection system

Ultraviolet disinfection system uses ultraviolet radiation to reduce the chlorine dosage and the chloroform content in the pool water. The ultraviolet disinfection system has the advantages of spectrum sterilization, fast sterilization, high sterilization efficiency, environmental safety, no secondary pollution, low operation and maintenance costs, and small footprint.

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What does activated carbon do to water?

The role of activated carbon in this circulation system is:

Adsorbing organic matter in water (such as human sebum, cosmetics, chemical components in sweat, etc.);
Removing odors;
Adsorbing residual chlorine byproducts (such as trihalomethanes);
Improving the color and transparency of water.

How does activated carbon remove chlorine and other pollutants?

1. Physical adsorption

Activated carbon has a very high specific surface area (up to 1000-2000 m²/g), and its microporous structure can adsorb various organic substances with small molecular weight:

Human excreta (sweat, sebum)
Cosmetics, sunscreen residues
Cleanser, detergent residues
Disinfection by-products (such as trihalomethanes THMs, chlorophenols)

2. Chemical adsorption

The functional groups on the surface of activated carbon can also form chemical bonds with certain pollutants, especially for chloramines (NH₂Cl, NHCl₂, NCl₃), aromatic hydrocarbons, organic acids, pesticides, etc. It has a strong removal effect.

3. Reduction reaction (removal of free chlorine)

The surface of activated carbon contains reducing functional groups (such as phenolic hydroxyl groups, quinone structures, etc.), which can react chemically with **free chlorine (Cl₂, HOCl, OCl⁻)** in water:

HOCl + activated carbon → Cl⁻ + oxidation product + H⁺

The reduction reaction can reduce the oxidizing free chlorine into harmless chloride ions (Cl⁻), eliminating irritation and odor.

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What is the activated carbon in a pool filter?

Best activated carbon for swimming pool

Heycarbons manufactures GAC granular activated carbons with a variety of materials, methods and activation levels to produce activated carbons designed to meet and exceed the needs of a wide range of applications.

From water treatment to gas phase applications, from purification of other aqueous and organic liquids to treatment of sucrose liquors and more, Heycarbons offers a wide range of custom designed granular activated carbons for a wide range of manufacturing processes and environmental applications.

Heycarbons granular activated carbon for swimming pool types

Coal granular activated carbon, the most popular type
Coal briquette granular activated carbon
Nutshell activated carbon
Coconut shell activated carbon

Granular activated carbon for swimming pool customer case

A Russian customer needs granular activated carbon for swimming pool water treatment. After communicating with Heycarbons professionals, the product parameters were finally determined:

Coal-based particles
12*40 mesh
Iodine value 950-1000mg/g

What are the disadvantages of activated carbon in water treatment?

1. The adsorption capacity is limited and needs to be replaced or regenerated regularly.

Once the activated carbon is saturated with adsorption, its purification effect will be significantly reduced;
After long-term use, it may become a “secondary release source” of pollutants.

2. It cannot completely sterilize.

Activated carbon itself does not have a sterilization function;
It can only remove byproducts such as chlorine and chloramine and some organic pollutants;
It still needs to be used with chlorine or other disinfectants to maintain the microbial safety of the water body.

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