Benefits from Using Zeolite
Do you know how well your present filter is capable of trapping particles and filtration? Following are some of the basic filters and their filtration abilities:
An Average sand filter can catch particles as small as 100 microns
A good cartridge filter can catch particles as small as 40 microns
A Zeolite filter can catch particles as small as 3 microns
Dead skin and blood cells are smaller than 9 microns and can not be caught with sand or cartridge filters. Zeolite is a non-leaching, antimicrobial, and will remove over 90% of viruses, bacteria, algae, and cryptosporidium from your pool. Zeolite reduces eye irritation, is durable and NSF Standard 50 approved. In addition to filtering skin and blood cells, Zeolite also absorbs chloromines, nitrates, ammonia phosphates, iron, manganese and filters giardia cyst and 75% of the bacteria known to man.
The combination of physical entrapment of fine particles and molecular sieving of comtaminants makes Zeolite a superb water filtration media and produces superior water quality compared to regular sand media. Other benefits include:
Filters by Physical Entrapment
Filters by Ionic Attraction
Filters by Electrostatic Charge
Removes Ammonia by Adsorbtion
Has a greater surface area than sand
Reduces addition of pH correction chemicals
May reduce Cholorine usage
Lowers Pump Pressures
Increases Flow Rates
Lowers Operating Costs
Zeolite not only outperforms silica sand, but tests are proving that it outperforms DE filters in the filtration of water. With the conversion of your present sand filter to a Zeolite Filtration System, backwashes, and chemical shocks are less, which can result in a reduction of water usage for maintenance of up to 30%.
