Not necessarily. If this water is being fed to an RO system, then you will want to put a cartridge filter. With respect to a MECO Vapor Compression Still, it depends on the carbon filter design. If the carbon filter is designed with PVC intervals, then a cartridge filter may be necessary to catch small amounts of carbon fines. With stainless steel intervals, a stainless steel dynapore mesh screen is welded over the bottom collector. Therefore, the cartridge filter is not required.

Yes, a carbon filter will remove the chlorine from the chloramine compound. The only difference is the amount of contact time between the chloramine and carbon fines necessary to remove the chlorine. When properly sized, carbon filters will remove the chloramines. Note: There will be an ammonia by-product after removing the chlorine from the chloramine.