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How to treat chloride waters

Hello to all, I have a question if you can help me:
we treat chloride waters with Argentum nitrato but I can not reduce its levels of chlorine ions.
anyone can help me in terms of previous?

torik

Torik Efendi
trial water treatment - Surabaya, Indonesia
November 4, 2010

Carbon treatment will remove most of the chlorine, but will not touch the chlorides.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
First of two simultaneous responses -- November 5, 2010

The AgNO3 will do a good job precipitating free chloride ions (Cl-) as AgCl. My guess is that you have chlorine in some form other than chloride.

Jon Barrows, MSF, EHSSC
GOAD Company

Independence, Missouri

Second of two simultaneous responses -- November 5, 2010

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