Non-conventional Adsorbents for Dye Removal - Green Chemistry for Dyes Removal from Wastewater - page 363

Table 10.1 Reported adsorption capacities q max (mg g -1 ) for carbon materials
made from agricultural sol id wastes and industrial byproducts (selected papers).

Raw material Dye q max Reference

Bagasse Basic Red 22 942 [19]

Bagasse Acid Blue 25 674 [19]

Bagasse Acid Blue 80 391 [20]

Bagasse Rhodamine B 65.5 [21]

Bagasse Basic Blue 9 30.7 [21]

Bituminous coal Acid Red 88 26.1 [22]

Cane pith Basic Red 22 941.7 [23]

Cane pith Acid Blue 25 673.6 [23]

Cedar sawdust Basic Blue 9 142.36 [24]

Cereal chaff Basic Blue 9 20.3 [25]

Charcoal Acid Red 114 101 [10]

Charfines Acid Red 88 33.3 [22]

Charfines Direct Brown 1 6.4 [22]

Cherry sawdust Basic Blue 9 39.84 [26]

Coal Basic Blue 9 250 [27]

Coal Basic Red 2 120 [27]

Coir pith Acid Violet 8.06 [28]

Coir pith Direct Red 28 6.72 [29]

Coir pith Acid Blue 15 2.6 [30]

Coir pith Basic Violet 10 2.56 [28]

Corncob Acid Blue 25 1060 [19]

Corncob Basic Red 22 790 [19]

Date pits Basic Blue 9 17.3 [31]

Flamboyant pods Acid Red 18 551.799 [32]

Flamboyant pods Acid Yellow 23 643.041 [32]

Flamboyant pods Acid Yellow 6 673.687 [32]

Grass waste Basic Blue 9 457.64 [33]

Hazelnut shell Basic Blue 9 8.82 [34]

Lignite coal Basic Blue 9 32 [35]

Lignite coal Acid Red 88 30.8 [22]

Mahogany sawdust Acid Yellow 36 183.8 [36]

( Continued )