Future water filter?

Flippers4pups · Mar 4, 2018

https://www.sciencealert.com/graphene-film-water-filtration-drinkable-seawater

@Randy Holmes-Farley,
could this technology be useful in our RO/DI unit's?

Fudsey · Mar 4, 2018

This is HUGE ! ! !

I would believe it would be an asset to ANY filtration unit. Seeing as it is inexpensive, I have a feeling that we will never see it.

Someone will buy them out and stop it because it will encroach on other more expensive tech....

EDIT: I should add that I pray I am wrong...

Flippers4pups · Mar 4, 2018

I would only hope that it's a viable technology that someone can make money from. In this world, if you can make money from it, it becomes available to all. Sad, but true.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 4, 2018

I'm not sure I see a big benefit to our current systems, even if it works as claimed, but someday it might be commercialized into a useful prefilter for RO/DI.

It is used as a prefilter to an RO membrane to prevent clogging. We'd still need a carbon block to remove chlorine, but it might be able to replace the particulate filters we use.