Purification Technology: Popularity Trends Report

Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the most popular purification technology of them all? To answer this question, we first need to determine which purification techniques we will put in the scope of our micro research and the winners are; activated carbon , aeration , coagulants , recrystallisation , ion exchange , molecular sieves , ozone oxidation , UV disinfection and sand filtration.

We could then have looked at the CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate), forecasts, import and export statistics, the trends in air pollution, water purification, biogas purification and filtration and other mega trends that could be of influence on the selected purification techniques and then break this down per region like Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Africa. Sounds good, however we mentioned “could” and we have selected to look to it in a different way and that is which techniques is most popular under the searchers on the internet. (And for the other points are already tons of reports available on the internet)

The good news, there is already a powerful tool available that does count the amount of pageviews on Wikipedia pages, and Wikipedia is a site that is getting a lot of visitors, so let us check this data out. We used the wmflabs tool and the month of September (almost till the end of that month). The nine purification techniques give a total amount of views of 78005 for the selected period and 3000 per day (that is more than only a couple of views). This is how the 9 purification techniques perform on individual basis, from low to high.

UV disinfection

Views: 10

Daily average: 0

Coagulant

Views: 974

Daily average: 37

Aeration

Views: 5555

Daily average: 214

Sand filter

Views: 5703

Daily average: 219

Molecular sieve

Views: 6510

Daily average: 250

Oxidation

Views: 7475

Daily average: 288

Ion exchange

Views: 8456

Daily average: 325

Recrystallization

Views: 9644

Daily average: 371

Activated carbon

Views: 33678

Daily average: 1295

The result is very clear on the topic: Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the most popular purification technology of them all? It is activated carbon, with an easy win! We hope you liked this different view on the trends in purification techniques.Also have a look at the trends report for purification companies.