What effect do organic compounds have on APTsorb?
Activated carbon is typically used ahead of standard ion exchange resins to prevent fouling by organics. Once fouled, these resins are difficult or impossible to regenerate. The process employed in the production of APTsorb includes a partial activation step. This step increases the internal surface area of the parent peat to approximately 15% that of activated carbon. As a result, APTsorb shares some of the characteristics of activated carbon in that it has a limited ability to absorb organics. In most cases, this capacity to absorb organics is enough to preserve the ion exchange mechanism without pretreatment with activated carbon.
