“…Among all the approaches proposed, adsorption is one of the most popular methods and is currently considered as an effective, efficient, and economic method for water purification. The adsorbents used include activated carbon (Nouri et al, 2002;Pereira et al, 2003), clay minerals (Celis et al, 2000;Abollino et al, 2003), zeolites (Oliveira et al, 2004), metal oxides (Wu et al, , 2005Zhang et al, 2007a), agricultural wastes (Robinson et al, 2002), biomass (Loukidou et al, 2003) and polymeric materials (Atia et al,2003).…”