Activated carbon filters are one of most popular and largely used filters world wide. The filters contain activated carbon in form of granules. The activated carbon is arranged in form of filtration bed in the filter. The carbon is supported by under bed media. The influent water flows down the activated carbon bed and is filtered of contaminants.
Activated carbon filters can remove chlorine from water, bio products of chlorination, oil and grease, volatile organic compounds, odor, color. The best thing about this filters is different type of carbon can be used to remove different types of contaminants from water.