“…Though the adsorption of dyes is currently described as an exothermic phenomenon (Jain et al, 2003;Iqbal and Ashiq, 2007), endothermic adsorption was also reported in the literature: acid orange 7 dye in aqueous solutions using spent brewery grains (Silva et al, 2004), methylene blue adsorption using wheat shells (Bulut and Aydin, 2006) and malachite green and basic red using activated carbon and activated slag (Gupta et al, 1997;Gupta et al, 2003). Iqbal and Ashiq (2007) reported ΔSº negative values for the adsorption of the following dyes from aqueous solutions on activated carbon: alizarine red-S, methyl blue, methylene blue, eriochrome black-T, malachite green, phenol red and methyl violet, indicating that the randomness at the solid-solution interface decreased during adsorption. However in case of dye bromophenol blue, the entropy increased like in the present work and the same phenomenon was reported by Gupta et al (1997), Gupta et al (2003), Silva et al (2004), Bulut and Aydin (2006) for others dyes.…”