How Activated Carbon is Used in Water Treatment

Hydrosil's treatment system designs offer versatile solutions for various applications. In Free-Standing Mode, its media serves as an efficient filtration medium for tasks such as oil spill mitigation, stormwater management, and industrial processes. In Pre-Treatment Mode, the media enhances upstream filtration systems like reverse osmosis and activated carbon by reducing fouling from silica, oil, and heavy metals. Finally, in Post-Treatment Mode, it acts as a downstream cleaning and polishing agent, complementing oil-water separators or coalesce filters.

Activated carbon has been used for decades to treat contaminated groundwater plumes. Typically, the setup for groundwater treatment of activated carbon is achieved through a pump-and-treat system. A pump-and-treat (P&T) system is the most common type of groundwater treatment method. Once the groundwater is treated it is discharged into nearby lakes, streams, and other water sources.

• Copper Removal in Groundwater
• PCBs Dewatering Project

The quality of water at an industrial plant will heavily influence the operation of your plant’s capital equipment and operation downtime. To increase operational time and maintain capital equipment, customers use activated carbon to treat process water within chemical and manufacturing facilities.

• Coolant Filtration

Organoclay is commonly used in pump and treat (P&T) systems. Emergency response treatment projects that utilize organoclay include but are not limited to train derailments, pipeline ruptures, tanker oil spills, industrial facility spills, natural disasters, oil and gas incidents, and many other emergency incidents.

• Gulf Oil Spill
• Crude Oil Spill

• Contaminated Stormwater Runoff

*To protect the activated carbon pore structure from oily compounds, Hydrosil suggests using the HS-200 as a pretreatment. The HS-200 focuses to remove oily compounds which allows the activated carbon to last longer and target other compounds.