Anthracite is the type of coal with the highest carbon content, over 95% by weight. Like many other minerals, it forms over millions of years from layers of plant material subjected to heat and pressure.<\/p>\n
This shiny black mineral is the hardest of all carbonaceous materials. Long used in water filtration, anthracite is often selected from deeper mines, where the carbon content is usually even higher because of the greater pressure. Read on to find out more about anthracite for water filtration<\/a>.<\/p>\n Filtration media are materials through which untreated raw water passes. They retain particulate matter and let cleaner water through. Each medium has its own characteristics: size, weight, whether it is activated or not, specific gravity and so on.<\/p>\n These characteristics lead to different performance in filtration. A balance between them gives the most robust system at the lowest cost, and anthracite’s tolerance of contaminants and ease of processing into a filtration-grade product make it an excellent choice.<\/p>\n Anthracite has ideal properties for purifying and clarifying drinking water, filtering wastewater and treating industrial water. It works very well with sand filters or as part of a multimedia filtration system.<\/p>\n Thanks to its properties, ease of use and wide availability, anthracite is one of the most widely used water filtration media in the world.<\/p>\n Deep-bed filtration is a fast and effective way of removing particles from liquids, and it works particularly well with water. It is common across industries such as civil engineering and water and wastewater treatment.<\/p>\n Anthracite is ideal for deep-bed filtration because the shape of its particles lends itself well to this use, and its strength and other properties make it an ideal material.<\/p>\n Multimedia simply means that there are several layers in a deep bed, providing filtration at different levels. Unlike methods such as cartridge filtration, multimedia filtration includes gravel of different sizes and shapes as well as anthracite, and it is one of the most robust and effective filtration systems.<\/p>\n In multimedia filtration, water passes through progressively finer layers of filtration material. Gravel or multimedia filtration is effective in treating river water, usually after a settlement stage. The filters are then cleaned by backwashing.<\/p>\n We have already mentioned anthracite’s strength and durability. In multimedia filtration, water passes through a series of layers of filtration material of increasing fineness in the direction of flow.<\/p>\n The multiple layers allow particles of different sizes and types to be removed, giving a purer result at the end of the process. Multimedia filters can retain a large amount of solids.<\/p>\n You may also like: What is anthracite filtration media? Its application in water filtration<\/a><\/p>\n Anthracite filtration media are a first-rate option in water treatment. Their filtration efficiency and versatility help deliver clean, safe water in water treatment works and wastewater plants alike. For more information on these water purification solutions, contact<\/a> Keiken Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthracite is the type of coal with the highest carbon content, over 95% by weight, formed over millions of years from plant layers subjected to heat and pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filter-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10831,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keikengroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why is anthracite used as a water filtration medium?<\/h2>\n
Why is anthracite used in deep-bed filtration?<\/h2>\n
What exactly is multimedia filtration?<\/h2>\n
Why is anthracite good for multimedia filtration?<\/h2>\n
The bottom line<\/h2>\n