Zeostore

Water Filtration

Zeolite for Swimming Pools and Backyard Ponds

100% natural
Safe for fish, plants & people
Possesses the highest Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and has a
significantly higher overall contaminant capture.
Removes nitrogen, certain organic hydrocarbons, and toxic cations such
as silver, mercury, nickel, chrome, cobalt, antimony, arsenic, etc.
Eliminates ammonia and reduces pool chemical demand.
Reduces the pool owner's expences by requiring less backwashing
Reduces chloramine formation=decreases eye irritation and improves air
Non-clouding in water due to very low clay content.
50% lighter than sand but filters 10 times better than sand- 3 microns versus 30-40 microns
Rechargeable

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For Swimming Pools:

For Backyard Ponds: Zeopack M, Zeolite Pond Rocks

Water Softener

Zeolites are minerals that are microporous cage-like molecules.Theses cages are interconnected forming a framework with many cavities and channels. The zeolite is the main ingredient in a water softener and is also called resin.

A typical water softener is a mechanical device that is plumbed into your home's water supply system. All water softeners use the same operating principle, trading minerals in a process called “ion exchange.” The zeolite /resin carries a negative charge and the offending minerals carry a positive charge. The positive charged mineral ions exchange places with the weaker positively charged sodium ions and are held fast in the zeolite until they themselves are knocked off during the recharge cycle. After recharging, the zeolite is cleaned of the bad minerals and reunited with its slightly positive friend the sodium ion and ready to attract more minerals in the water stream.

The essential part of a water softener is the mineral tank that holds the negatively charged resin/zeolite beads. Calcium, magnesium and sodium (the minerals that make your water hard) carry positive charges with sodium holding the weaker charge of the three.As the water moves through the tank, the minerals will displace the weaker charged sodium ions and become entrapped in the zeolite. If all is working correctly, after the zeolite bed is completely saturated, the unit will recharge itself with a strong brine (salt) solution. The force and strength of the solution knocks the minerals off the beads and reseats the sodium ions back into the zeolite beads.

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Wastewater Treatment

emoval of Heavy Metals

Many toxic heavy metals have been discharged into the environment as industrial wastes, causing serious soil and water pollution. Pb+2, Cu+2, Fe+3, and Cr+3 are especially common metals that tend to accumulate in organisms, causing numerous diseases and disorders. They are also common groundwater contaminants at industrial and military installations. Numerous processes exist for removing dissolved heavy metals, including ion exchange, precipitation, phytoextraction, ultra filtration, reverse osmosis, and electro dialysis.
The use of alternative low-cost materials such as zeolites as potential sorbents for the removal of heavy metals has been emphasized recently. Various treatment processes are available, among which ion exchange is considered to be cost-effective if low-cost ion exchangers such as zeolites are used. The structures of zeolites consist of three-dimensional frameworks of SiO4 and AlO4 tetrahedra. The aluminum ion is small enough to occupy the position in the center of the tetrahedron of four oxygen atoms, and the isomorphous replacement of Si4+ by Al3+ produces a negative charge in the lattice. The net negative charge is balanced by the exchangeable cation (sodium, potassium, or calcium).
These cations are exchangeable with certain cations in solutions such as lead, cadmium, zinc, and manganese. The fact that zeolite exchangeable ions are relatively innocuous (sodium, calcium, and potassium ions) makes them particularly suitable for removing undesirable heavy metal ions from industrial effluent waters. Click to read research study for complete info.

Research Study:
The removal of heavy metal cations by natural zeolite/clinoptilolite