Donau Carbon - Standard Purification

10/24/2016

Activated charcoal has been used in the medical field for a really long time to treat poisoning by chemicals, drugs, and snake bites, and is a common ingredient in water filters.

Did you know activated charcoal can treat alcohol poisoning and hangovers?

07/18/2016

Standard Purification has merged with Donau Carbon, a global producer of high quality activated carbon products. The merged companies will operate in the US as ‘Donau Carbon US LLC’ from the Standard Purification facilities in Dunnellon, FL.

Standard Purification and Donau Carbon Corporation Merge to Form Donau Carbon US LLC. DUNNELLON, FL and FRANKFURT, GERMANY – Standard Purification, an independent producer of activated carbon products, announced it has merged with the US subsidiary of Donau Carbon, a global producer and distributor…

04/28/2016

Water systems can be very complex, and tracing the causes of different tap water flavors and odors can be just as complicated. When we turn on the tap, "It's not magic. It comes from somewhere".

If you want to know why your water tastes funny -- whether it tastes like pencil shavings, bleach, metal, dirt, fish, mold, medicine, gasoline, salt, rotten eggs or wet dog -- we've got answers.

02/19/2016

The presence of toxic algae has been detected in one-third of SE USA streams. Although microcystin levels are below the WHO risk threshold of 1ppb, the presence of toxic algae has inspired further research into the impacts on drinking water reservoirs.

USGS scientists have detected toxins known as microcystins produced by various forms of algae in 39 percent of the small streams assessed throughout the southeastern United States. Their recent study looked at 75 streams in portions of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

01/29/2016

While researchers have long suspected that climate change will lead to stronger and more frequent algae blooms, a new fusion of climate models and watershed models has proven those suspicions right: For Lake Erie, at least, the number of severe blooms will likely double over the next 100 years.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-severe-algal-blooms-lake-erie.html

By the latter half of this century, toxic algal blooms like the one that cut off drinking water to the city of Toledo in 2014 will no longer be the exception, but the norm, a study suggests.

01/04/2016

While mostly aesthetic in nature, taste and odor in drinking water can have a big impact on our perception of water quality. Watercarb products are widely used by water treatment plants to efficiently remove taste and odor causing compounds from raw water and improve drinking water quality.

The aesthetic aspects of drinking water include: taste, odor, color, turbidity, salinity, hardness, softness and temperature.

12/09/2015

California is experiencing its driest four-year span on record which is creating more issues for drinking water than just scarcity.

Uranium is increasingly seeping at unhealthy levels into the drinking water of major farming regions of the U.S. West. While uranium is a naturally occurring element, it gets into water supplies as an unexpected by-product of irrigation, drought and over-pumping of groundwater. The...

12/08/2015

Calcium bromide used by Duke Energy to reduce mercury emissions from coal burning power plants appears to have caused a spike in contaminants in Charlotte’s drinking water.

Chemicals used by Duke Energy to curb air pollution appear to have caused a spike in contaminants in Charlotte’s drinking water.

11/16/2015

In the physical adsorption process, activated carbon uses a surface friction phenomenon known as 'Van Der Waals Forces' to trap pollutants, or adsorbates within its porous structure.

11/13/2015

NOAA had predicted an intense, harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie this year because of high rainfall that would lead to heavy discharge from the Maumee River, a major source of nutrients from fertilizer and manure on farm fields and livestock operations. But the amount of harmful algal bloom biomass was greater than it predicted.

The harmful algae bloom that spread a carpet of “dense scum” — the scientific term — over 300 square miles of western Lake Erie this summer was the largest since scientists started measuring the blooms in 2002, a federal agency announced

10/29/2015

Bottled water is big business. But in the long run, is it wasteful and how much does it distract from the construction and maintenance of safe public water systems?

Bottled water is healthy, or so marketers would have us believe. Just look at the labels or advertisements — pristine pools of spring water, majestic alpine peaks and people drinking bottled water after a trip to the gym.