“…The first report of red mud used as a dye adsorbent was by Namasivayam and Arasi (1997). After that, many studies have used red mud as an adsorbent of different dyes (NAMASIVAYAM; YAMUNA; ARASI, 2001ARASI, , 2002SAINI, 2004;WANG et al, 2005;TOR;CENGELOGLU, 2006;SILVA FILHO et al, 2008;WANG et al, 2009;NOROUZI;BADII;ARDEJANI, 2010;BHATNAGAR et al, 2011;RATNAMALA;SHETTY;SRINIKETHAN, 2012;ANTUNES;SHIRZAD-SIBONI et al, 2014;JESUS et al, 2015;SAHU;SAHU;PATEL, 2015;OLIVEIRA et al, 2016;BACIOIU et al, 2017). To our best knowledge, however, there are no extant reports on the effects of thermal treatment on bauxite refinery residue as a reactive dye adsorbent.…”