Technologies
Title: | Domestic Arsenic Water Filter |
Area: | Engineering Sciences |
Focus Area: | Water Filtration |
Social Benefits: | Provides arsenic free water to the masses, Long-term exposure toarsenicin drinkingwatercan cause cancer in the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney, It can also cause other skin changes such as thickening and pigmentation. Exposure toarsenicin the workplace by inhalation can also cause lung cancer |
Developing Agency: | CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), West Bengal |
Technology Readiness Index: | Technology Demonstration |
Email: | director@cmeri.res.in |
| Website Link : | http://www.cmeri.res.in |
| Source (more info) : | https://t.ly/l_sb |
Brief Description
Description : | Salient features: Flow rate: 4-5 L/H,. Filtering capacity: 1800 L/Cartridge. Filterable arsenic concentration: ~0.3 ppm . Water storage capacity: ~25 L . Affordable and Power free arsenic filter . Cost of purified water : ~10.0 paisa/Liter . Purification Stage: 4- Stages . Maintenance: Through washing the media . 20 Nos. unit deployed in West Bengal for the common people in the areas having elevated level of arsenic in their hand-tubewells. Application: Environmental (Clean Tech.) - Water treatment. |