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The Homeguard Filter is a high flow domestic filter. It has been designed for the household or smaller industrial premises requiring safe potable drinking water. It has the capacity to remove not only Chlorine taste and odour, Fluoride, but also protozoa such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. It will also remove bacteria, herbicides, pesticides and many other harmful chemicals including Blue Green Algae toxin.
Filtration Stages:
1. Particulate Removal.
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Many situations arise where a source water requiring filtration is loaded with a fine particulate that needs to be removed from the water prior to filtration with activated Carbon. This fine particulate which if removed by the carbon filter element will reduce the carbon filter elements life expectancy and effectiveness as a molecular filter.
There is also a group of contaminants, which includes microscopic worms, parasites and protozoa. The biggest offenders are Giardia Lambda and Cryptosporidium, which cause major diarrhea, dehydration, intestinal disorders and even death. Water experts estimate that over 63% of water problems are directly caused by Giardia and Cryptosporidium.
Giardia is seven to fourteen microns in size and Cryptosporidium is from three to five microns in size. When the environment becomes inhospitable (like in the presence of chlorine), both parasites can go into the cystic form (like a hard, round, impermeable microscopic egg). The cyst form is resistant to chlorine and very hard to kill. Municipal water authorities are unable to remove the cysts economically. Healthy individuals infected by these parasites experience cholera like illness: watery diarrhoea, headache, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and low-grade fever. For the immuno-compromised, however, the results of the infection are much more severe; the parasite can severely damage the liver and respiratory tract, as well as the gall bladder and pancreas. Even worse, there is a 40% to 50% mortality rate for the immuno-compromised. Those at risk include cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, infants, the elderly, kidney dialysis patients, recent transplant patients, aids patients and others with suppressed immune systems.
The only sure way of removing these cysts and other protozoa and fine particulate material is to run the water through a membrane with a mesh size of less than 3 microns.
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The HomeGuard water filter is fitted with a large high quality fluoride removal filter element
Activated alumina is manufactured from aluminium hydroxide by dehydroxylating it in a way that produces a highly porous material; this material can have a surface area significantly over 200 square metres/g. The compound is used as a desiccant (to keep things dry by absorbing water from the air) and as a filter of flouride, arsenic and selenium in drinking water. It is made of aluminium oxide (alumina; Al2O3), the same chemical substance as sapphire and rubies (but without the impurities that give those gems their color). It has a very high surface-area-to-weight ratio. That means it has a lot of very small pores, almost like tunnels, that run throughout it.
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It has the capacity to remove not only Chlorine taste and odour, but also bacteria, herbicides, pesticides and many other harmful chemicals that can be found in town water. see the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (click here to be redirected)
The Homeguard filter is fitted with a large high quality Colloidal silver impregnated activated carbon filter which has the added protection of Colloidal silver to prevent bacterial growth
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Now you know all the technical stuff but the most important information is that the HomeGuard Water Filter has all of these important filtration and water treatment components built in as part of our high quality and high flow rate water filter that is ideal for your whole of house application to protect you and your family
The HomeGuard can also be fitted with full length elements for special filtration purposes such as Tannin removal.
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