Pre filter is an integral part of any reverse osmosis or other bulk water treatment systems . Even in bulk water treatment like ETP, STP, or agricultural irrigation sand filter ,disc filter, cyclone filter ,mesh filter are used because they provide simple effective pretreatment . They save your costly water treatment parts from dust, mud , particles, sand ,algae and many more suspended visible unwanted impurities other than water .
In domestic and medium commercial reverse osmosis water filters. Pre filtration do a very good job and needs to be highly effective to save next sediment pre carbon post carbon and very important RO MEMBRANE.
As of now lot of pre filters are available in market. Ex: Paper filter , spun cartridges, cotton media etc. The biggest drawback of these pre filters is they need regular replacement depending your water quality. Example more the clean water less replacement and vice versa. Also, one more drawback is quality of filtration they provide is poor . To overcome these all issue one more very good rather ultimate method is
PVDF HF UF Membrane
PVDF means polyvinylidene fluoride, it is special synthetic material which are threads with 0.1-micron porous holes. These are assembled in special way to pass only water with 0.1-micron filtration.
The biggest advantage of PVDF HF UF membrane is it washable and reusable again and again we have 9 years’ experience in Navi Mumbai. Also, other people are using in Panvel area where water is almost reddish color in monsoon because of mud and poor alum treatment .
How to clean this washable pre filter
Simply remove the bowl and take cartridge out for cleaning . Same as a cloth napkin clean it for 2 to 3 mins now see the mud and other particles removed from fibre.
In this way u can use it for many years. Our technical expertise says infinite years as long as the PVDF threads are in ok condition.
