“…This figure also shows that the greatest adsorbent-adsorbate interaction occurred when there were fewer acid groups, greater presence of basic groups, and higher toluene content, while less energy was released when the sample contained higher content of acid groups, lower basicity and only hexane as adsorbate, showing that the extreme values of highest and lowest immersion enthalpy values corresponded to single-component systems (toluene or hexane as the only immersion liquid), this happened because when the starting sample was subjected to heat treatment, it was generated an unsaturated surface because of the desorption of acid-type functional groups, increasing the basicity, and at the same time, the lower content of oxygenated groups made the surface more akin to non-polar adsorbates as the studied hydrocarbons, but the interaction with toluene was higher since in addition to the aromatic ring generating π-π interactions with the activated carbon (greater in CST because having a higher content of basicity increased the amount of πē available to interact with the adsorbate), C 7 H 8 contained an electron-donor methyl group that increased the ring electronegativity, causing stronger attractions with the nucleophilic basal plane of the carbonaceous material (Daud and Houshamnd, 2010;Shafeeyan et al, 2010;Montes-Morán et al, 2012;Bhatnagar et al, 2013;Anuradha et al, 2014;Bedolla et al, 2014;Lo et al, 2014;da Costa Lopes et al, 2015;Abdulrasheed et al, 2018).…”