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Article Solunabilir Tozun Su Spreyleri Kullanılarak Bastırılmasında Son Gelişmeler(2000) Polat, Hürriyet; Polat, Mehmet; Gürgen, SabitTürkiye'de görülen meslek hastalıklarının çoğunu tozun solunmasından kaynaklanan pnömokonyoz oluşturmaktadır. Bu yazının amacı, yeraltı ocaklarında işçi sağlığı açısından sakıncalı olan havada asılı tozların, su spreyleri kullanılarak bastırılması konusunda gelinen aşamayı sunmaktır. Bu amaçla, havada asılı toz ve su damlalarıyla yapılan detaylı çalışmalar ışığında, sprey suyuna katılan yüzey aktif maddelerin istenen verim artışını sağlayamama nedenleri ele alınmakta ve su spreylerinin Türkiye'deki maden ocaklarında kullanım olanakları tartışılmaktadır.Conference Object Effect of Some Physical, and Chemical Variables on Flocculation and Sediment Behaviour(A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2000) Polat, Hürriyet; Polat, Mehmet; İpekoğlu, ÜnerEffect of some chemical and physical variables on the settling rate, final sediment height, sediment viscosity and supernatant turbidity of a clay sample was studied using various polyacrylamide type flocculants. Increasing flocculant concentration significantly increased both the settling rate and sediment viscosity. More importantly, changes in the final sediment, height, hence the packing density, was minimal for all the conditions tested once the sediment was allowed to consolidate. Also, the mode of addition of the polymer, at once or continuous, did not seem to affect any of the parameters measured. Conditioning time seemed to alter the settling rate at low polymer concentrations, but had no effect at high polymer concentrations. However, increasing the conditioning time caused a decrease in the sediment viscosity. Different types of the polyacrylimides generated different settling rates at a given concentration, but the final sediment height was nearly independent of polymer type.Conference Object Solution of the Non-Linear Poisson Boltzmann Theory for the General Case of Dissimilar Double Layers(2006) Polat, MehmetCalculation of the surface potentials, surface charges or electrostatic pressure for interacting colloidal particles is exceedingly important in mineral processing, environmental engineering, ceramic sciences, etc. Such calculations require solving the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann theory at each plate separation. Though approximate analytical solutions of this theory are available for simplified cases, a general, but compact analytical solution is yet to be developed. A solution with no restrictions on surface potentials or charges is developed in this paper. The expressions developed are straightforward and require as input only the surface potentials at infinite separations.Article Citation - WoS: 16Citation - Scopus: 19Designing of Spherical Chitosan Nano-Shells With Micellar Cores for Solvation and Safeguarded Delivery of Strongly Lipophilic Drugs(Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Cihan, Esra; Polat, Mehmet; Polat, HürriyetChitosan is a very effective biopolymer for drug delivery purposes due to its biocompatibility, positive charge and exceptionally pH sensitive degradability behavior in an aqueous medium. Nevertheless, its inability for dissolving lipophilic drug active material and the difficulties in controlling the size and shape of the synthesized particles in nanometer range are critical drawbacks in its effective use. In this study, a synthesis procedure which addresses both issues simultaneously is presented. The procedure is based on initial dissolution of lipophilic drug molecules within the hydrophobic cores of the micelles of a bio-compatible block-copolymer by ionic gelation and subsequent formation of a chitosan shell by polymerization around the micellar structures. Well-formed, hollow and perfectly spherical chitosan particles (nano-shells) in the 30–300 nm size range could be successfully manufactured. Characterization by STEM, TEM, AFM, FTIR and DLS, DLS-LDV techniques showed clearly that the drug was successfully incorporated into the chitosan structure. It was demonstrated that the particles enveloped the micelle(s) of a Pluronic copolymer (P-123) whose hydrophobic cores contained a strongly hydrophobic drug Probucol. The chitosan nano-shells are expected to act as an agent protecting the integrity of the drug-loaded micelles in the body fluid while providing a pH sensitive release medium. The drug uptake by the chitosan particles was very high. A very sharp increase in the amount of the drug released with a slight change in the acidity of the medium was an indication of the potential of the manufactured chitosan nano-shells as pH sensitive, target specific delivery vehicles for drug release.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 15Ancillary Effects of Surfactants on Filtration of Low Molecular Weight Contaminants Through Cellulose Nitrate Membrane Filters(Elsevier Ltd., 2016) Olcay, Aybike Nil; Polat, Mehmet; Polat, HürriyetRemoval of contaminants with low molecular weight (<800 Dalton) requires the use of advanced separation techniques such as ultrafiltration (UF) or micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF). However, surface active agents invariably co-exist in waste waters along with these contaminants or they may be added intentionally as part of the separation process as in the case of MEUF. Though it is quite likely that both the filter medium and the contaminants would interact with the surfactant molecules or their micelles, there is not sufficient emphasis in the literature on the concomitant aspects of such interactions.The ancillary effects created by anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS), cationic (hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, CTAB) and non-ionic (ethoxylated octylphenol, TX-100) surfactants on the mechanism and efficiency of the filtration process were investigated in this study. Methylene blue (MB) and cellulose nitrate membrane (CNM) filters were employed as model retentate and the separation medium. A combination of surface tension, contact angle and charge measurements demonstrated that the addition of surfactants had a remarkable effect on the filtration outcome. The effect depended on both the type and concentration of the surfactant and was manifested mainly through the creation of MB-surfactant entities which acted differently than the MB alone; but more importantly, through the interactions of the surfactant molecules/micelles and the MB-surfactant pairs with the separation membrane.Book International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition Ppm 2015, 15-18 September 2015, Izmir-Turkey(Organizing Committee of the International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition, 2015) Polat, Mehmet; Tanoğlu, Metin; Kılıç Özdemir, Sevgi; Polat, Mehmet; Tanoğlu, MetinWe welcome you to the International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition, PPM 2015. The foreword of the proceedings and the abstracts books of the previous symposium, PPM 2013 which was the first of its series, started with the following sentence: ‘Idea of organizing a symposium on porous and powder materials owes its germination to the curiosity about the “other side of the fence”.’ It was a very fitting and almost a prophetic statement because 700 participants from 50 countries hosted by PPM 2013 belonged to an incredibly wide spectrum of science and technology, who one way or another dealt with porous and powder materials. It was both a fascinating and engaging sight to have people from the cement industry sitting in the sessions related to Biological and Medical Aspects since they realized that a characterization technique used in this field may actually answer some questions in theirs. Do we not deal with the same basic questions when we truly try to understand a material no matter where it originates from or how it is being put into application?Book International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition Ppm 2013, 3-6 September 2013, Çeşme Izmir-Turkey(Organizing Committee of the International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition, 2013) Özdemir, Sevgi Kılıç; Polat, Mehmet; Tanoğlu, Metin; Kılıç Özdemir, Sevgi; Polat, Mehmet; Tanoğlu, MetinWe welcome you to the first of the International Porous and Powder Materials Symposium and Exhibition, PPM 2013. The idea of organizing a symposium on porous and powder materials owes its germination to the curiosity about the ‘other side of the fence’. We are all familiar of the mild surprise when we come accross with a research paper from a totaly unrelated field written in a completely different terminology but describing something pleasantly familiar. Just imagine the elation of a PhD student in ceramics who is trying to optimize the stability and plasticity of the green body reading about the double layer around a protein, of an environmental engineer who is attempting to flocculate a nasty sludge coming accross with the concept of aggregation of micellar structures or of a researcher in chemical engineering who is looking for the perfect catalyst seeing the SEM pictures of porous nanoparticles developed for drug delivery. The list could be extended with much better examples by the readers of this book. But the best set of words to describe these feelings is an awareness of wholeness and solidarity.Article Citation - WoS: 22Citation - Scopus: 26Coal Fly Ash as a Potential Fixation Reagent for Radioactive Wastes(Elsevier Ltd., 2015) Lieberman, Roy Nir; Green, Uri; Segev, Giora; Polat, Mehmet; Mastai, Yitzhak; Cohen, HaimIsrael produces ∼1.3 Mt/year of fly ash (FA), a byproduct of its coal-fired power plants. Due to increasing environmental regulations, these imported coals are processed to reduce the sulfur concentration (∼0.6%). These processing methods result in a material that has an enriched alkali/alkali earth component with pozzolanic and basic properties (pH > 10.5). FAs are utilized worldwide, mainly as a cement additive for the construction industry. Recently, it was demonstrated that Class F FA can act as an excellent fixation reagent for acidic wastes from the phosphate or the oil regeneration industries. In the current work the potential utilization of Class F FAs as fixation reagents for low-activity radioactive waste from the nuclear industry was examined. Aqueous solutions containing radionuclide simulants: cesium (Cs+), strontium, (Sr2+), and cerium (Ce3+, Ce4+) were used as case studies with promising results. It is suggested that the primary fixation mechanism involves the aluminate/silicate anions at the FA surface. A novel experimental fixation approach utilizing the formation of carbonates is demonstrated and a new interaction mechanism is suggested based on the electrostatic interactions of the positively charged fine precipitates with the negatively charged FA surface. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Determination of Electrostatic Potential Distribution by Atomic Force Microscopy (afm) on Model Silica and Alumina Surfaces in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions(Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Yelken Özek, Gülnihal; Polat, MehmetAFM was employed as a physicochemical probe to determine the electrostatic potential distribution quantitatively on selected ideal oxide surfaces (quartz 0 0 0 1 and sapphire 0 0 0 1) in aqueous media. The force of interaction between a silicon nitride tip and the oxide surface was measured at a given point under well-defined solution conditions. Relevant theories were used to isolate the electrostatic component from the total force of interaction which was then employed to estimate the surface potential at that point. Repeating the procedure on selected locations generated a potential map of the surface. Comparison of these potentials with those obtained from independent electrokinetic measurements confirmed the validity of the approach. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 57Citation - Scopus: 69Leaching Behavior of Selected Trace Elements in Coal Fly Ash Samples From Yenikoy Coal-Fired Power Plants(Elsevier Ltd., 2012) Akar, Gül; Polat, Mehmet; Galecki, Greg; Üner, İpekoğluShort-term leaching test results of alkaline fly ash from Yenikoy coal-fired power plant were reported in this paper. ASTM D-3987-85 and TCLP-1311 test methods were applied to determine leaching behavior of selected elements namely, Fe, Ca, Cu, Co, Cd, Mn, Ni, Pb Zn, and Cr (VI) at different particle size fractions and test conditions. Chemical, mineralogical and morphological characterizations of ash samples were also performed using chemical, XRD and SEM-EDS analysis methods. The results showed that CaO dominates in the Yenikoy fly ash sample which directly affects the mobility of trace elements by determining the pH of the leaching medium. Higher mobility values of Cd, Co Cu, Pb, Ni and Zn elements were observed for TCLP-1311 procedure. The concentration of these elements in leachates showed a tendency to increase by decreasing particle size. Overall results suggested that the amount of the selected elements in the final leachates of both tests was lower than the limit values of landfill regulations except Cr (VI).
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