Assessment of Activated Charcoal Efficiency with Filter Paper in the Water Purification Process

Abstract

The water purification is process of removing unwanted chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from the contaminated water with a specific purpose. Activated charcoal is often used as part of filters for water purification and on the pharmacological market are available activated charcoal capsule that can consume a certain period of time for cleaning the body. The aim of this paper is to check the efficiency of activated charcoal as a water purifier, and assess whether it can really purify drinking water until adequate measures. The results showed that activated charcoal with filter paper reduces calcium, iron, chloride, lead and cadmium concentrations, the concentration of potassium, magnesium and sodium after passing through active charcoal with filter paper depends on the starting sample, potassium monitors the movement of sodium, and magnesium is disproportionate to sodium. Activated charcoal with filter paper removes carbonates very well, it doesn’t remove efficiently chloride and we can say that is not a good copper purifier, but that conclusion is not safe and ultimate.