“…Among various treatment methods, adsorption is quite a promising technique for the removal of dyes due to its high efficiency, ease of handling, availability of different adsorbents, and its cost efficiency. In this regard, various adsorbents have been developed for the separation and removal of different dyes including activated carbons (Ahmad and Hameed, 2010;Oliveira et al, 2011), magnetic nanocomposites (Deligeer et al, 2011;Jiang et al, 2014;You et al, 2014), zeolites (Akgu¨l, 2014;Herna´ndez-Montoya et al, 2013), mesoporous materials (Lee et al, 2007;Punyapalakul and Takizawa, 2006), clays (Liu and Zhang, 2007), natural or agro-industrial by-products (Al-Ghouti et al, 2010;Haris et al, 2010;Saad et al, 2010;Subbaiah and Kim, 2016;Yu et al, 2012), and so on. In recent years, agricultural or agro-industry by-products are widely used as efficient adsorbents for improving the contaminated water and wastewaters.…”