Demestic Iron Removal Filter

Domestic type filtration unit, addressing the removal of iron from groundwater is very much in demand in areas depending solely on groundwater for their livelihood.22 states in India and in other countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Africa are suffering from high iron concentration in groundwater.

Salient features:

• Remove iron to the desired permissible limit (0.3ppm) of drinking water.
• No electricity & chemical required
• Completely green technology
• Flow rate : ~ 2 L/hour(approx.)
• Storage capacity : ~ 10 L
• No replacement of adsorbent
• Backwashing facility is available
• Estimated cost of the iron filter unit : Rs 1000-1500 /- (approx)
• Estimated filtration ability of filter medium (backwashing time) is around 40 days (for 7 ppm iron conc.) assuming consumption of 8L of water per day for a family.
• Transferred to one Indian Industry in non-excl.basis and 20 Nos. of this unit were deployed in different villages under Gram Panchayats in WB.
• Application: Environmental (Clean Tech.) - Water treatment.

Provides iron free water to the masses where no electricity, chemicals are used and no replacement of adsorbent since backwash facility is available.