“…The sorption behavior of some pesticides and herbicides as well as their removal mechanisms has been previously documented. For an instance, the removal performance of atrazine (Cao et al, 2009), catechol (Kasozi et al, 2010), carbaryl (Zhang et al, 2013), 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (Kearns et al, 2014), fluridone (Sun et al, 2011a), and oxamyl (Taha et al, 2014) by various biochars was 0.02, 20, 1, 0.72, 10 mg g À1 , and $99% sorbed, respectively, and their removal mechanisms (e.g., proposed sorption mechanisms) were mainly partitioning, pore-filling and diffusion, hydrophobic and p-p EDA interaction, surface adsorption, partitioning on armorphous-C, and H-bonding with polar groups, respectively. However, knowledge on the sorption propiconazole (PROPI) by biochar is very limited.…”