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  • Master Thesis
    Sorption of as (v) From Waters by Use of Novel Amine-Containing Sorbents Prior To Hgaas and Icp-Ms Determination
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2008) Boyacı, Ezel; Eroğlu, Ahmet Emin; Eroğlu, Ahmet Emin; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    A novel sorption method utilizing several amine-containing sorbents was developed for arsenic determination in waters by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HGAAS) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).Chitosan, chitosan-immobilized sodium silicate, chitosan-modified macroporous silicate, and aminopropyl triethoxysilane-treated macroporous silicate were among the sorbents investigated for As(V) sorption.Sorption parameters were optimized for As(V) using chitosan and chitosanimmobilized sodium silicate and were then applied in all sorption studies. These parameters, namely, sorption pH, amount of sorbent, reaction temperature, and shaking time were 3.0, 50.0 mg, 25 .C, and 30 min, respectively. The sorption for chitosan under the optimized conditions was 89% (±1) while that for As(III) was lower than 10% at all pHs. In addition, chitosan-modified and amine-modified macroporous silicate demonstrated 88% (±3) and 68% (±12) sorption, respectively. After the sorption, the release of arsenate from chitosan and chitosan-immobilized sodium silicate was realized using two eluents; namely, 2.0% (v/v) acetic acid which dissolved chitosan, and 1.0% (w/v) L-cysteine solution having a pH of 3.0 adjusted with HCl which eluted arsenate by reducing to arsenite. Their respective desorption percentages were 90% (±1) and 100% (±4) for chitosan, and 67% (±2) and 100% (±1) for chitosan-immobilized sodium silicate.The preconcentration study performed using an absolute amount of 150.0 ng As(V) in bottled drinking water at the enrichment factors of 1, 2, and 10 has given 98% (±3), 95% (±2), and 78% (±4) recoveries, respectively. The accuracy of the proposed methodology with chitosan was verified with spike recovery tests for various water types at a concentration of 10.0 .g/L As(V). With matrix-matched calibration, the percentage spike recovery values were determined to be 114 (±4), 112 (±2), 43 (±4), and 0 (±1), for ultrapure, bottled, tap and sea water, respectively. These results have shown the strong suppression effect of the tap and the sea water matrixes.
  • Master Thesis
    Development of Novel Sorbents for Speciation of Inorganic and Organik Selenium Prior To Determination by Atomic Spectrometric Techniques
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2011) Demirkurt, Merve; Eroğlu, Ahmet Emin; Eroğlu, Ahmet Emin; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Selenium is an essential trace element forplants, animals and the human body. Hovewer, its possible toxicity at high concentrations necessitates the development of analytical methods for theseparation and determination of the several forms of the element in environmental andbiological systems.In the first part of the study, commercially available and newly synthesized ceria (CeO2) and zirconia (ZrO2) were used for the sorption and speciation of inorganic selenium. Sorption parameterswere investigated for both sorbents for selenite (Se(IV)) and selenate (Se(VI))and the optimized parameters were determined to be 25°C for sorption temperature, 50.0 mg for sorbent amount, 30 min for shaking time for 20.0 mLof 100.0 μgL-1of both species. Therelease of Se(IV) and Se(VI) from the sorbents was realizedusing two eluents, 0.10 M NaOH and 0.10 NH4Cl, respectively. The accuracy of the proposedmethodology was verified with spike recovery tests for various water types spiked with 10.0 μgL-1and 100.0 μgL-1Se(IV) and Se(VI). Spike recovery values were determinedto range between 91% and 97% at 10.0 μgL-1level, and between 97% and 113% at100.0 μgL-1level, for ceria and zirconia, respectively. Moreover, the sorption efficiencies of the newly synthesized sorbentswere compared with those of the commercial sorbents.Ceria and zirconia were shown to be applied in the speciation of inorganic selenium. Sorption studies with nZVI-modified zirconia have demonstrated that the sorbent can be utilized for the speciation of inorganic and organoselenium; namely, Se(IV), Se(VI), Seleno-L-cystine and Seleno-DL-methionine. In the final part of the study, it was shown by column-type equilibration studies that alginate beads modified/immobilized with CeO2 or ZrO2through three different synthesis routes can be used for the sorption and speciation of inorganic selenium.