KATALOX LIGHT®
Advanced Filtration Media

Filtration of
• Suspended solids
• Sediments
• Turbidity
• Organics
• Color
• Odor

Removal of
• Iron
• Manganese
• Hydrogen Sulfide
• Arsenic
• Radium
• Heavy Metals
• Radionuclides

Advantages
• High content MnO2 coating (10%)
• Very High Surface Area
• Contains NO Crystalline Silica
• Light Weight - providing significant savings on backwash water
• Higher Filtration rates
• Filtration of sand, sediment, and suspended solids, down to 3 micron
• High-efficiency removal capacity of Iron, Manganese and Hydrogen sulfide
• Effective reduction of Arsenic, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Radium, Uranium, radionuclides and other heavy metals
• Media replacement every 7 - 10 years
• No disinfection by-product
• No mandatory KMnO4, chlorine or chlorine dioxide dosing
• Low operational costs
• A unique product, unmatched by our competitors

What is Katalox Light®?
KATALOX LIGHT® is a new brand of revolutionary advanced filtration media completely developed in Germany. It‘s composition simply makes it outstanding against the contemporary filter media available in water treatment industries, like sand, BIRM, Greensand Plus, Manganese Greensand, etc. KATALOX LIGHT® is manufactured in Germany.

KATALOX LIGHT® is engineered with a unique MnO2 coating technique on ZEOSORB®, providing it lightweight, higher filtration surface, more service life and more reliable performance (filtration down to 3 μm) than any other existing granular filter media.

KATALOX LIGHT® is being used in numerous system for residential, commercial, industrial and municipal applications worldwide, for High-level filtration, color and odor removal, Iron, Manganese, Hydrogen sulfide removal, efficient reduction of Arsenic, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Radium, Uranium and other radionuclides and heavy metals.

KATALOX LIGHT® is Certified to NSF/ANSI-61 standard for drinking water applications and has met the ANSI/NSF 372 Lead-free compliance.

Example of Setup for Katalox Light System 

Parallel Setups for High Flow Rates

Virtually there is no flow rate limitations for KATALOX LIGHT® systems as KATALOX LIGHT® units can be configured in parallel to address industrial high flow vrequirements.

Series Setups for very high Iron Content 

Real installations from different parts of the world have been reported to remove unchallenged amounts of iron. In a few extreme cases, multi-stage Katalox-Light filtration systems have been used without the use of any chemicals to remove iron with inlet concentration of as high as 60 – 100 mg/L (ppm).

These astounding findings are being further investigated to find the correlation between removal limit and underlying ORP, pH and other possible governing characteristics.

Flow Rate and Vessel Sizes

Additional Options 

Optional Inlet and Outlet Pressure Gauges 

Inlet Pressure Gauge allows you to monitor the pressure of the incoming source water Pressure. This will give you an indication of your water pressure is above the 6 bar maximum rating for the housings, in which case you can then install a pressure regulating valve before the filter system. 

The Inlet Pressure gauge will also help to indicate whether the incoming source water pressure is too low, in which case a pressure pump can be added before the filter system.  

Using an Outlet Pressure Gauge in combination with the inlet pressure gauge will give you an indication of the change in pressure (pressure “drop”) from before to after the filter system.

This will also allow you to see if and when the filters are starting to block up, indicated by a big change between the inlet and outlet pressure levels. Assisting you in knowing when to replace the filter cartridges inside.

Please note that pressure gauges are built to order, construction time is 2 to 3 working days. 

PVC Threaded and Glue Fittings

PVC(Polyvinyl chloride) fittings are used to connect sections of pipes or tubes, adapt to different sizes or shapes, and controlling the flow of water. There are two predominant types of PVC fittings namely PVC Glue Fittings and PVC Threaded Fittings. The difference between the two is that PVC Glue Fittings result in permanent joints and PVC Threaded Fittings are semi-permanent and can be replaced. PVC Glue fittings are joined with primer and cement- a chemical solvent that melts the surface of the PVC and then quickly re-hardens to fuse the pieces together. This results in an airtight, leak-proof bond similar to what you get with welding metal. An example of such a fitting is a PVC Glue Reducing Socket which is used to join together two pieces of PVC pipes with different diameters. Another example would be a  90 Degree Elbow which is used to connect two pipes of the same diameter at an angle of 90 degrees.PVC Threaded fittings utilise a simple threaded connection whereby replaceable 'male threaded' are screwed into 'female threaded'.Male threads have a thread on the outside of the fitting and female threads have a thread on the inside. When you thread the fitting in, it compresses against the other threads.PTFE tape is used to thread these together and the proper way to assemble threaded fittings is to finger tighten, then add one to two turns but no more. An example of a threaded fitting is a Reducing Nipple Male Threaded which is used to connect between two female threads of different diameters. 

Link To PVC Fittings