Water purification

We are planning renovations in the Paper Conservation Lab at the
Yale Center for British Art, including installing a new water
purification system.  We are looking at a system where the water
will first pass through a deionizing canister, a sediment filter
cartridge, and then go through a calcium carbonate "neutralizing"
filter.  The filter is made with treatment grade calcium carbonate.
If you have a system of this sort, please pass along your comments.
Do you love it?  Do you wish you had chosen something else? Are
there maintenance problems?  How long have you had it?  What grade
calcium carbonate do you use?

Alison Luxner
Associate Paper Conservator
Yale Center for British Art

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 11:35
                 Distributed: Tuesday, October 14, 1997
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