Chemical Engineering / Kimya Mühendisliği
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Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 5Quantification of Peg40st Squeeze Out From Dspc/Peg40st Monolayers at Higher Molar Ratios(Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Kılıç, SevgiMixtures of 1,2 Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) and polyoxyethylene-40-stearate (PEG40St) were prepared at different molar ratios and their miscibility were investigated using Langmuir isotherms. Pure DSPC monolayer exhibited a liquid-condensed (LC) phase whereas PEG40St monolayer exhibited liquid-expanded (LE) phase at the air-water interface at 22 ± 2 °C. At the collapse pressure of 33 mN/m, the PEG40St mean molecular area was calculated to be 28 Å2/molecule for 9:1 composition and 50 Å2/molecule for 5:5 composition, showing an increasing trend with the emulsifier content. A quantification method was developed to estimate the squeeze out amount of PEG40St from Langmuir isotherms of the DSPC/PEG40St mixtures at different molar ratios. Almost 93%, 82%, and 53% of PEG40St displaced for the 9:1, 7:3, and 5:5 mixtures, respectively, at the end of the first collapse plateau and showed a decreasing trend with the PEG40St content. Remaining PEG40St squeezed out at the end of the second collapse plateau, where 20% of PEG40St still contained within the 5:5 composition. It was concluded that increasing PEG40St content would be advantageous to design more stable lipid based microbubbles.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 23Activated Carbon Adsorption of Fuel Oxygenates Mtbe and Etbe From Water(Springer Verlag, 2009) İnal, Fikret; Yetgin, Senem; Aksu, Gülsüm T.; Şimşek, Selvi; Sofuoğlu, Aysun; Sofuoğlu, Sait CemilThe aqueous phase adsorption of fuel oxygenates methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) onto commercially available granular activated carbon (GAC; Norit GAC 1240) was investigated in a batch system at 27°C. The oxygenate concentrations were determined by headspace gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analyses. The experimental data were used with four two-parameter isotherm models (Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin, and Dubinin-Radushkevich) and two kinetic models (pseudo first-order and pseudo second-order) to determine equilibrium and kinetic parameters. Considering the correlation coefficient and root mean square error, Dubinin-Radushkevich isotherm showed better fit with the equilibrium data for MTBE. However, the performances of Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich models were comparable for ETBE. The adsorption capacities were calculated as 5.50 and 6.92 mg/g for MTBE and ETBE, respectively, at an equilibrium solution concentration of 1 mg/L using Dubinin-Radushkevich isotherm. The differences between the model predictions and experimental data were similar for the pseudo first-order and pseudo second-order kinetic models. Gibbs free-energy changes of adsorption were found to be -22.59 and -28.55 kJ/mol for MTBE-GAC and ETBE-GAC systems, respectively, under the experimental conditions studied.