Technology Details

Status: Transferred on non-exclusive basis

Key Features

  • Inexpensive method of synthesis of nanosilver coated ceramic candle filters
  • Reduces bacterial concentration from 105cfu/ml to 0cfu/ml.
  • The life cycle analysis of the product demonstrated that silver leaching concentration into the filtered water, as a function of usage time and long term antibacterial activity of candle filters, was within the WHO limits.

Applications

  • Water purification