Water Purification: Filter Paper for the Production of Safe Drinking Water

Solmaz Heydarifard Huining Xiao Mousa M. Nazhad

ISBN 10: 1536124370 / ISBN 13: 9781536124378

Published by Nova Science Publishers, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Water Purification: Filter Paper for the Production of Safe Drinking Water
• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1536124370
• ISBN 13: 9781536124378
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

A large segment of the population in undeveloped and developing countries drink untreated or partially treated water. Annually, 6 to 60 billion cases of gastrointestinal illnesses are continuously reported due to safe drinking water, and over 1.6 million people die due to these water-borne diseases. Owing to increasing concern about global water-related diseases associated with drinking water, finding an affordable and suitable way of water treatment is of great importance. Filtration is a promising point-of-use water treatment. Currently, most water filtration membranes are made of synthetic polymers derived from non-renewable resources. Negative factors like climate change, many different environmental pollutants and the reduction of oil resources give rise to increase the demand of biodegradable products over non-renewable resources. This book introduces a novel, cost effective and biodegradable filter; a so-called cellulose foam filter. The cellulose foam filter is a novel porous cellulosic derivative made via a foam-laid process and modified in order to act as a water filter. Improvements of wet strength performance and the biocidal activity of filters are two main tasks presented in this book. Wet strength improvement is achieved through a furnish formulation, and the addition of agents and anti microbial activity are performed using polymeric anti microbial agents, guanidine-based polymers and å-poly lysine.