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Abstract
Boron removal from geothermal water and its reverse osmosis (RO) permeate was examined by a novel synthesized monodisperse porous poly(GMA-co-EDM) resin containing N-methyl-D-glucamine. The optimum resin concentration was found to be 4 g L−1 and the kinetic data were found to follow a pseudo-second-order kinetic model. According to the correlation coefficients for diffusional kinetic, the rate controlling step was particle diffusion.
Acknowledgement
This work was supported financially by BOREN (Project Number: 2008-G-0192). We are grateful to TUBITAK for post-doctoral fellowship for S. Samatya. We would like to thank Izmir Geothermal Energy Company, Izmir, Turkey for geothermal water samples. We also thank Prof. A. Ozdural, Hacettepe University, for using ICP equipment for boron analysis.