Removal of azo dye from aqueous solution by a low-cost activated carbon prepared from coal: adsorption kinetics, isotherms study, and DFT simulation - Jan, Saeed Ullah; Ahmad, Aziz; Khan, Adnan Ali; Melhi, Saad; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Sun, Guohua; Chen, Cheng-Meng; Ahmad, Rashid (Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021)
Keywords: Activated carbon; Adsorption; Aquatic Pollution; Aqueous solutions; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Azo Compounds; Azo dyes; Charcoal; Charge transfer; Coal; Configurations; Dyes; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; endothermy; energy; Enthalpy; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Pollutants; Research Article; Sorbents; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; surface area; Surface charge; Surface chemistry; Thermodynamics; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollution Control; Zeta potential; Thermodynamics; Anionic dyes; DFT; Kinetics; Adsorption; Activated carbon