E3-M PIONEER Filtration

Arsenic, Lead & Heavy Metal Removal

PFOA/PFOS Removal

About E3-M PIONEER Filtration

The ENPRESS E3-M® Filtration System includes an exclusive integrated bypass and meter that utilizes industry standard threaded fitting kit connections to simplify installation and streamline field-installation inventory requirements.

Combined with the PIONEER® POE filter, which is THE FIRST OF ITS KIND Whole-House Lead, Cyst & PFOA/PFOS, Arsenic & Heavy Metal Removal Solution, customers have an answer to their problems of removing harmful contamination from their water.

PIONEER® Pb – Lead, Cyst, PFOA/PFOS Removal

PIONEER® is specifically designed at a 0.5-micron nominal filtration level, to remove both particulate and soluble lead from your drinking water. Soluble lead is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and needs to be chemically removed from water. Particulate lead is like a tiny grain of sand that needs to be physically removed from water. The PIONEER® POE filter removes BOTH forms of lead contamination from the whole house in a single filter.

The drinking water supplies of more than 15 million Americans have water concentrations of PFAS compounds at levels exceeding the EPA health advisory limit, affecting over 110+ million Americans. Based on testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 98 percent of Americans have at least some level of chemicals in their blood, and has been found in water supplies across the globe. Common usage of a class of man-made fully fluorinated chemical compounds known to be resistant to heat, water, and oils, incorporated into a variety of industrial and commercial products, such as non-stick cookware (a chemical ingredient in the production of the nonstick coating used to make Teflon®), carpets, stain resistant clothing, food packaging, firefighting foams, adhesives, cosmetics, leather, and the film inside microwave popcorn bags.

The chemicals Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), also known as C8, and Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) are bio-permanent, are resistant to direct oxidation, and do not break down naturally in the environment or the human body. Studies suggest that exposure to the chemicals may lead to cancer. The NSF/ANSI 53 Drinking Water Treatment Units Standard is an extremely rigorous test to evaluate the effectiveness of water treatment equipment for the reduction of chemicals in drinking water, specifically perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooactane sulfonate (PFOS). The NSF/ANSI 53 standard contains four primary sections and is similar to NSF/ANSI 53 Standard for Lead; Section 3 evaluates the Performance of the filter to reduce the PFOA and PFOS. The influent level for Standard 53 testing is 1.5 parts per billion (ppb), added as 1.0 ppb PFOS and 0.5 ppb PFOA. (1.5 parts per billion is equal to 1500 parts per trillion.) For the life of the filter, it must reduce the influent PFOA/PFOS concentration below 20 ppt to comply with the requirements of the standard. ENPRESS results are below 10 ppt. It’s obvious that PFOA/PFOS chemicals need to be removed from your water.

The PIONEER® Pb POE filtration system houses a strategically designed nominal 0.5-micron filter to remove BOTH chemicals along with BOTH forms of lead (soluble and particulate) from your house in a single filter. The PIONEER® Pb is the First of its Kind Whole-House Lead, Cyst & PFOA/PFOS Removal System, providing safe drinking water throughout your entire home.

PIONEER® Pb – Lead, Cyst, PFOA/PFOS Removal

PIONEER® Pb removes lead, which is a colorless, odorless and tasteless metal. In addition to lead, the patented E3-M filtration system removes >99.95% of Giardia and Crypto, as well as chlorine and chloramine*.

Giardia and Crypto: Waterborne parasite that causes diarrheal disease; very resistant to chlorine-based disinfectants and is common in drinking and recreational waters.

Chlorine and chloramine: Water disinfectants added to municipal water that have negative health effects. The most harmful exposure is through inhalation and skin adsorption of steam in a shower.

PIONEER® PF – PFAS Removal

PIONEER® PF features a proprietary filtration solution for the water treatment industry specifically designed to remove PFAS forever chemicals from drinking water to meet/exceed new EPA Drinking Water Standards of <4 ng/L for PFAS chemicals. Extremely user friendly with no hazardous waste streams or bulk media replacement, PIONEER® PF is proven to remove PFAS to non-detect levels (<1 ng/L). Additionally, spent cartridges will be returned to ENPRESS for PFAS extraction, destruction and media reuse—a first-of-its-kind technology and program!

PIONEER® PF provides molecular selectivity to both long- and short-chain PFAS (poly and perfluoroalkyl) substances, whose adsorption is not affected by the co-presence of inorganic ions or other water characteristics like pH and TOC. The technology has greater than 25x adsorption capacity compared to GAC and IX resins that can be affected by biofouling. Like all adsorbents, suspended solids, iron and manganese should be removed in a pre-filtration step before water contact with PF8. With no backwash requirement, low pressure drop, high treatment capacity, resistance to fouling, and a tiny footprint when used in the ENPRESS ONE E3-M® system, PIONEER® PF cartridges will provide filtration to non-detect for eight PFAS chemicals (PFOA, PFOS, PFHpA, PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, GENX, and PFDA) with service flow rates up to 10 gpm (37.9 lpm). For PFAS concentrations at 3,000+ ppt, the filter will provide non-detect levels of PFAS removal for greater than 150,000+ gallons of water. In more common water test results of 100 ppt, the expected life of a single cartridge is 350,000+ gallons of treated water.

PIONEER® PF – PFAS Removal

The PIONEER® PF cartridge solution is ideal for small to medium size POE (point-of- entry) residential and light commercial water filtration installations, including RV parks, hotels, casinos and resorts, military bases, aquaculture, food processing, manufacturing plants, and multi-user wells of all sizes. The filter will remove to non-detect under these challenge conditions:

PIONEER® As – Arsenic Removal

The PIONEER® As utilizes an engineered binary mixed metal adsorption media (ATOMUS® F11) for the simultaneous reduction of both arsenic III and V from potable water in a non-backwashing filtration design for use in both residential and commercial point-of-entry (POE) applications. PIONEER® As meets or exceeds USEPA enforceable maximum contaminant level (MCL) regulations in public drinking water of 10 parts per billion (ppb) for arsenic in water systems. The technology is so advanced against pH upset to prevent possible desorption of bound arsenic both during use and in landfill conditions, ensuring successful evaluation against USEPA TCLP and California Wet Tests solutions with an unparalleled, non-leachable arsenic bond, the filters are landfillable after use if disposed of in accordance with local, state and federal regulations/requirements.

PIONEER® As is the first-of-its-kind non-backwashing whole-house filtration solution that removes both forms of arsenic (III and V) and is certified to NSF/ ANSI 53 Standard for service flow rates up to 7 gpm (26.50 lpm) for 125,000 gallons of certified filtration life. This technology is so advanced that there is no required converting of arsenic III to V prior to filtration, no air-oxidation control valves, and no backwashing! This innovative POE (point-of-entry) filtration system provides FILTRATION EVERYWHERE TECHNOLOGY®.

PIONEER® As Removes Arsenic

Arsenic (As) is a naturally occurring contaminant found in many ground waters. It generally occurs in two forms. In natural ground water, arsenic may exist as trivalent arsenic, pentavalent arsenic, or a combination of both.

PIONEER® OX – Sulfur, Tannin, and Heavy Metal Removal

ENPRESS PIONEER® OX filtration cartridges are designed to provide an effective filtration solution for the reduction of sulfur, iron, manganese, color/tannins/organics and heavy metals from water, with service flow rates up to 15 gpm (56.8 lpm). This cartridge provides a simple and easy solution to the removal of these dissolved contaminants, greatly improving the taste of water. This cartridge will help to eliminate the orange and brown stains often found in sinks, toilets, tubs and other plumbing fixtures. It also reduces the possibility of damage to pipes and water heaters.

Applications:

  • Ideal for residential, food service, rental fleets, commercial and industrial applications
  • Make-up water, RO pre-filtration, cooling towers, chill water loops
  • Process water (turbidity, particulate, colloidal suspensions)
  • Reduction of unwanted bad taste and odor from potable drinking water
  • Reduction in frequency of replacing common 21⁄2″ or 41⁄2″ housings (bigger is better)
  • Other water-based fluid solutions

PIONEER® OX Performs

With fast kinetics and EBCT (empty bed contact time) from 1–5 minutes depending on the agent that requires oxidation, PIONEER® OX can eliminate from water many difficult contaminants

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