Carbon

orion57

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hi my carbon in my filter is ready for change, im told you can run boiling water over it and it Reactivates is this true or should i just buy new.
 
The pours of the activated carbon would need to be un-blocked. I don't think 100degreeC water will be hot enough for that.
 
You can indeed reset a filter to a 100C background. the problem that I see is simple to state but harder to overcome. You will have a configuration that is accepted by the model of a cycled system but that dose not really have the whole requirements of a cycle met.
At that point I must rely on the definition of a cycled tank to help you move forward. A cycled tank has the simple characteristic that it accepts only primary simple characteristics of a simple %mp% characteristic. That would define the best available thread definition for that era. The next era was better defined by ignoring the latest definition criteria and taking those files that did not comply with previous definitions.
 
OM the last part of that post reads like those computer generated science papers the MIT students did;

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/paper.html
 
Sorry Katch.
My intent was to express the idea that who knows what. I may have been on a roll at the time and merely thought I was making some sense.
The idea of a regenerated carbon adsorber is a bit exotic in its theory. The 100C water will indeed provide a small improvement in the adsorption ability of your carbon but it will not be anywhere near good enough to replace the charcoal that a manufacturer can produce with anaerobic combustion processes as are often used to establish activated charcoal, as opposed to carbon. The real problem that I see is not that there is something wrong with your carbon but that it is not properly established to have the right adsorption characteristics. The boiling water, 100DC, is simply not effective enough to be worthwhile, in my opinion.
 

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