With the introduction of the new BECO CARBON ACF 04 depth filter sheet, Eaton is expanding its portfolio of activated carbon-containing filter media and now fully covers all relevant porosity ranges. This enables users in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and beverage as well as fine chemical industries to benefit from maximum adsorption of organic impurities. The meso-/macroporous ACF 04 depth filter sheets with 1,000 g/m² of immobilized activated carbon are ideal for decolorizing media with dark to medium discoloration (brown to yellow). They are also used for the removal of undesirable large and medium-sized molecules such as proteins, for taste and odor correction as well as for purification of solutions. Together with the existing filter types containing 1,000 g/m² activated carbon—ACF 02 (macroporous), ACF 03 (micro-/mesoporous) and ACF 07.10 (meso-/macroporous with 420 g/m² for viscous liquids)—Eaton now provides the right activated carbon solution for a wide broad range of applications.

The depth filter media are available in multiple formats: as BECO MiniCap ACF single-use filter units, BECODISC BC stacked disc cartridges and BECO CARBON flat sheets. These formats enable seamless scale-up using identical media—from laboratory scale (20.8 to 628 cm² effective filter area) to pilot systems (0.4 to 1.55 m²) and full production scale (1.55 to 112.5 m²).

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