“…For this purpose, some methods including oxidation, ozonation, electrolysis, reverse osmosis, coagulation/flocculation, adsorption, filtration and biological treatment are used (Gupta and Suhas, 2009;Koprivanac and Kusic, 2009;Saratale et al, 2011;Gupta and Ali, 2013). Among these, adsorption is an attractive way to remove dyes from aqueous effluents (Piccin et al, 2011;Dotto and Pinto, 2011a;Foletto et al, 2013;Ghaedi et al, 2013;Akkaya and Güzel, 2014;Reddy et al, 2014). Simplicity of design, low-cost, high removal efficiency, ease of operation and availability are the main advantages of adsorption (Gupta and Ali, 2013).…”