How Your Iron Filter Works - Clean Water Systems Pro?OX 2510 Installation & Starting Manual

Pro‐OX 2510 Manual Backwash Iron Filter Installa on & Startup Guide

How Your Iron Filter Works

See Fig. 1. Water enters the top of your Pro-OX iron filter tank and flows down through the media and up the
distributor tube. Iron and manganese in the water turns to an oxidized par cle upon contact with the media and
is trapped in the media. During backwash, the water flow is reversed and water flows down the distributor tube
and up through the media, li ing and expanding the Pro-OX filter media, and removing all the iron and rust
trapped in the filter. A er the backwash stage, potassium permanganate solu on is automa cally drawn in from
the potassium permanganate solu on tank and slowly rinsed through the Pro-OX filter for 1 hour, a er which
the Pro-OX media is thoroughly rinsed-to-drain. This en re automa c process, called "regenera on" takes about
90 minutes. Typically the Pro-OX filter is set to regenerate every 3 to 7 days, during the middle of the night when
no water is being used.
Fig. 1—Pro‐OX Iron Filter Flow Diagram
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