“…Activated carbon is the most popular adsorbent and widely used [2,3]; on the other hand, due to its expensive cost and necessity of regeneration, many new approaches have been developed. In the recent years, for the removal of different type of substances from wastewaters, several materials have been evaluated as adsorbents like silicagel [4], clay [5], perlite [6][7][8][9], zeolite [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], hydroxyapatite [19], fly ash [20][21][22][23], unburned carbon [24,25], coir pith carbon [26,27], pulp fibers [28], shale oil ash [29], silkworm pupa [30], etc. * Corresponding author.…”