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Article Citation - Scopus: 2Effect of Geothermal Water Composition and Pretreatment on the Product Water for Boron-Sensitive Crops(Turkish Energy Nuclear and Mining Research Institute, 2021) Güler, EnverThe membrane filtration is an effective way to produce water for human consumption, industrial use, or irrigation purpose. In this study, a brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) membrane was practically investigated to obtain irrigation water from geothermal water. The quality of the produced water was analyzed to understand the potential in agricultural use for boron-sensitive crops. The effects of the feed solution composition and pretreatment by microfiltration were studied. Results showed that the ionic content was effective in reduction of permeate flux. However, the rejections of salt and silica did not change significantly by the change in the feed water composition and they were successfully removed from the geothermal water by more than 95% rejection. Pretreatment of the geothermal water with a microfiltration (MF) membrane having a pore-size of 0.8 μm provided higher flux than the one having a pore size of 5 μm. The higher rejections of boron were only achieved with increased pH in the pretreatment. The pH of 9.5 in the geothermal water provided a rejection of boron as 75% with a permeate boron concentration of 2.4 mg/L when 15 bar of operating pressure was employed. This level of boron concentration in the irrigation water was found to be allowable only for some boron resistant crops (e.g. beans, lettuce, onion) and semi-sensitive crops (e.g. sunflower, potato, tomato).Article Theoretical Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Capture by Aqueous Boric Acid Solution: a Termolecular Reaction Mechanism(2018) Kayı, HakanHitherto, boric is suggested and used as a promoter or catalyst for carbondioxide capture in various chemical absorption reactions, such as, absorptionby aqueous potassium carbonate solution to increase mass transfer rate. Butin this study, a single step termolecular reaction mechanism is suggested forthe chemical absorption of carbon dioxide directly by boric acid and water. Thereaction thermochemistry and reaction kinetics for termolecular mechanism areinvestigated by using density functional theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G(d)level of theory by taking into account of the implicit solvent effects of water throughthe polarizable continuum model and dispersion corrections. The findings obtainedfrom theoretical calculations indicate that it is possible to capture carbon dioxidewith boric acid in the form of B(OH)2OCOOH.
