Aqua-garco / Coarse garnet, Almandite
Aqua-garco is a naturally occurring mineral with uniform physical, chemical, hardness and microstructure characteristics, which provide the essential properties for a wide variety of industrial uses.
Aqua-garco is the compositional variety known as almandite. There are no free elements; all oxides are combined chemically as an iron-rich aluminosilicate, which has the formula: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3. Texturally and compositionally uniform in all sizes. All material mined from the same high-grade deposit.
Applications:
Inert filter medium
- as polishing layer (because of it’s high density you can choose finer sizes compared to Aqua-sand) wherever extremely high water quality is required,
- for removal of suspended solids down to 1 µm,
- for pre-filtration to protect valuable units like Activated Carbon Filters, Ion-exchangers and Reverse Osmosis Membranes,
- in single-, dual- or triple-layer filter, combined with Aqua-sand or Aqua-cite or Aqua-sand plus Aqua-cite.
Chemical analysis |
Average
figures
|
EN 12910 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SiO2 | mass-% | 37 | 32 - 42 |
| Al2O3 | mass-% | 21 | 15 - 25 |
| FeO | mass-% | 29 | 20 - 40 |
| Fe2O3 | mass-% | 4 | 0 - 15 |
| TiO2 | mass-% | < 1 | 0 - 5 |
| CaO | mass-% | 2 | 0 - 5 |
| MgO | mass-% | 6 | 0 - 15 |
| MnO | mass-% | < 1 | 0 - 5 |
Physical characteristics |
Average
figures
|
EN 12910 | |
| Density | g/cm3 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| Bulk density | kg/m3 | 2250 | 2150 - 2250 |
| Acid solubility | insoluble | ||
| Shape | sub-rounded to sub-angular | ||
| Sizes available | Standard sizes 0.3 - 0.6 mm and 1.4 - 2.5 mm, other sizes upon request. | ||
Packaging
- 25 kg woven plastic bags, palletised covered by plastic foil, 1 mt per pallet.
