chlorine

[sasikan]

not sure if this has been discuses before .does a reverse osmosis system take out chlorine ?

 

[raymond82]

From what I understood, chlorine is harmful for the RO membrane. That's why RO units usually have a carbon filter fitted before the RO membrane to remove the chlorine from the water. So that would make RO water chlorine free, if there's a carbon filter fitted in the system.

 

[sasikan]

i know my r/o system has 3 filters so that sounds good thanks!

 

[raymond82]

My RO unit has also three stages, I think that's pretty much universal. That means:

1st: sediment filter to filter out larger particles
2nd: carbon filter to remove (A.O.) chlorine
3rd: the actual RO membrane.

 

[Mike Wise]

As I understand, there are 2 different types of R/O membranes; 1 for non-chlorinated (well) water and 1 for chlorinated (tap) water.