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Updating your Home with Reverse Osmosis Water Purification
A home is the central gathering place for your entire family. It is the main place you eat, drink and live. With all of the news on water contamination, it is important to make sure your family is getting contaminant free, clean drinking water.
When considering an update to your home, or just a small improvement, a water purification system that uses reverse osmosis can be a great investment. Reverse osmosis eliminates 99% of lead, sodium, arsenic, radium and more. This is a great and eco-friendly way to purify your water.
The Process of reverse osmosis starts with the water from a liquid with a high concentration of dissolved solids being forced to flow through a semi-permeable membrane, the heart of the reverse osmosis system, to the low concentration side where this water can be collected. The process is achieved by applying pressure on the liquid to overcome the natural osmotic pressure forces on a membrane.
The semi-permeable membranes used in the process are engineered to only allow the passage of the water molecule. The semi-permeable membrane allows water molecules to pass through while blocking larger molecules. Water molecules penetrate the thin layer of the membrane and diffuse through it molecule by molecule. Dissolved salt ions do not diffuse through this layer because the solubility of the salt ions is much less than that of the water. Thus, the water moves through more readily and separation from the other molecules present occurs. The driving force is furnished by both the pressure and the concentration differentials across the membrane. For water, the pressure effect is the most important, and for dissolved mineral ions the concentration difference is most important. Therefore, increases in pressure increase the product water flow without a corresponding decrease in the quality of the product water.
In nature, osmosis drives a liquid with a low level of dissolved solids through a semi-permeable membrane into a higher concentrated solution of dissolved solids. This continues until both levels have equalized pressure. Though this process works in nature, it does not eliminate the harmful contaminants and dissolved solids in a laboratory setting. The process of using reverse Osmosis has proven successful in eliminating the health risks involved with drinking contaminated water. You can set up reverse osmosis to deliver enough pure water to meet your family's drinking and cooking needs.
This process results in clean, clear, pure water without the lingering taste of lead or chlorine.
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