REMOVAL OF CHEMICALS

IN TAP WATER WITH

NANOZEOLITE
WESTER ARQUIO
MARTIN JOHN BALANAG
 OBJECTIVES
• The objective of this research is to remove the chemicals such as the
inorganic minerals, the micro-organism, and the heavy metals from
the tap water using nanozeolite as a water filtering material.

The objectives:
• Determining how inorganic minerals, and heavy metals was formed in the tap water.
• Determining the processes of water filtering using a homemade water filter and
pulverizing the zeolite into nano-size powder particles using the ball milling method.
• Determining and observing the result of the sample water (Clear, brownish, or cloudy) after
filtering the tap water with nanozeolite.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
• When it comes to drinking water from the faucet, it contains more than 90
contaminants which most likely is not a very clean water. Because the water
pipe system that is coming from the water supplies, including the water
sources (rivers, lakes, streams), is not pure clean. The water system needed
an affordable filtering material that will remove or prevent any chemicals
going through the filtering device.
 SCOPE & LIMITATION

• This research focuses on filtering the tap water (filled with inorganic
minerals, & heavy metals) into clean water with the use of
nanozeolite and synthesizing the zeolite into nano-size powder (100
nm - 2500 nm) Three water samples will be gathered for water filtering
(kitchen, bathroom, fast-food restaurant… etc.)
 Cloudy Brownish

Brownish
Clear
 HYPOTHESIS

• Expecting a clean tap water after removing the chemicals away from
the water using a fine nano-sized powder of zeolites. And gathering
the powder nanozeolites requires ball milling method for pulverizing
the zeolite into nano particles.
BALL MILLING

• It is a type of grinder that can be use for grinding, blending, and

sometimes mixing the materials.
• It consists of a hollow cylindrical shell rotating about its axis at a
horizontal, and it contained a small steel balls (chrome steel, stainless
steel, ceramic, or rubber) for grinding.
• It is a simple grinding process to pulverize a material into fine
powder size broad particle.
HOMEMADE WATER FILTER

• It is an easily affordable, inexpensive, and simple effective type of

water filter which can be made using a household and recycle
materials.
 METHODOLOGY

Pulverizing the zeolite:

• When zeolites and stainless-steel balls are inserted into the horizontal
cylindrical machine, the ball mill machine will then rotate. Inside the
ball mill machine, the stainless-steel balls will crush and grind the
zeolites, creating a loose fine powder.
Homemade Water Filter:
• Nanozeolite powder, soda bottle (500 ml), cotton balls, coffee filter paper, filter
cap, and drinking glasses.
• Cut off the bottom of the soda bottle and place the bottle upside down.
• Replace the bottle cap with the filter cap.
• Insert the cotton balls inside the soda bottle as the first layer.
• Insert the coffee filter paper inside the soda bottle as the second layer. This will
hold the powder nanozeolites.
• Add the powder nanozeolites as the third layer.
• Pour a glass of tap water on top of the water filter. This will remove the
chemicals away from the tap water.
 Homemade
nanozeolite
water filter

Gathering of materials

Ball milling the

Replace the cap with water filter cap
zeolite
Cutting the bottom of 500ml
bottle

Putting the materials by layer in order:

Powder of
Cotton Balls, Coffee Filter, and Powder
nanozeolites
Nanozeolites

Pour a glass of tap water into the homemade water filter

Clean Tap
Water
RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS
• Tap water is treated with a large number of chemicals in order to kill bacteria and
other microorganisms. In addition, it may contain other undesirable contaminants
like toxic metal salts, hormones and pesticides, or it may become contaminated by
chemicals or microbes within pipes (e.g. lead, bacteria, protozoa).

• Zeolite are used to filter the tap water and shown good ion-exchange capacities for
cations, such ammonium and heavy metal ions. Furthermore, Zeolite also improves
water clarity, neutralizes slightly acidic water, remove chlorine (Cl) from tap water,
removes iron (Fe) from ground water source, removes contaminants like heavy
metals such as, copper (Cu), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn). In
addition, zeolites provides better liquid/solid separation than other filters such as
alum and polymer.
Typical tap water content:
Hormones
Chlorine
Nitrates
Fluorine compounds
Pesticides
Trihalomethanes (THMs)
Salt of Heavy Metals:
 Arsenic

 Radium

 Aluminum

 Copper

 Lead

 Mercury

 Cadmium

 Barium
 REMOVAL OF FLUORIDE IN WATER WITH
MEXICAN NATURAL ZEOLITE

• It was determined that the natural clinoptilolite • Through an adsorption process using
zeolite from the central valley region of the state
the natural Mexican zeolite, condition
of Oaxaca, Mexico, has an intrinsic capacity for the

removal of fluorine in water up to 0.023 mg·g −1, with calcium (ca), manganese (mg)
and the conditioning of this material with calcium or iron (fe), it blocks an incoming
(ca), manganese (mg) or iron (fe) significantly
fluoride ions. The best percentage of
increases this removal capacity being the zeolite
removal obtained from fluoride ions was
conditioning with iron (fe), the best material

because the results showed that increasing more 98 percent. For a water filtered with the
than 80% the removal capacity of the zeolite in conditioned of zeolite and iron (fe).
relation to its natural state.