Article Highlights • The oil pollutants of sludge were reduced using low-cost adsorbents • Sawdust was introduced as low cost, flammable and available adsorbent • Process parameters were screened by Plackett-Burman design • Process parameters were optimized by response surface method • Freundlich isotherm provided best fit of the equilibrium data
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