Single-use Adsorption Filter Media

The current state of the art in treatment of drinking water impacted by emerging contaminants uses technologies such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), Ion Exchange (IX), Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), or media adsorption. Some of these systems are complex in terms of equipment needs and associated operator training and also are quite energy intensive. As such, single use adsorption type of systems are often considered for these type of applicaitons.

Project Goals and Objectives:
This project will examine use of single-use adsorption filter media capable of removing arsenic, PFAS, selenium, and other contaminants from water. This passive filtration process types only require a feed pump, thereby eliminating many steps that are normally associated with the operation of conventionally technologies, thus saving both electricity and water. Water quality impedes the performance of such system and understanding of these is an important step is critical.
The goal of this project is to develop a conceptual design of single use treatment system and an associated computer based modeling projection tool using excel or other programs to validate performance of different types of adsorption media to evaluate the efficiency, capacity, and other parameters to better understand the cost of compliance.

Anticipated Tasks:
The team will be involved in developing a conceptual design for single use treatment system and review the influent and effluent water quality data from an existing plants to build a computer modeling tool with various input parameters including empty bed contact time, competing water quality parameters, etc.