“…According to the data presented in Table 3, the adsorbent showed pore diameter values between 20-500 Å, which correspond to mesoporous IUPAC, 1982), thereby confirming the observations in Figure 3.The increases in the surface area, diameter, volume, and area of the pores following calcination indicate that the calcination process was effective. These results are in agreement with the literature for MCM-41 (Beck et al, 1992;Chien et al, 2005;Silva, 2007a;Cai et al, 2011;Fu et al, 2011;Li et al, 2011;Saladino et al, 2011;Bing et al, 2012;Du & Yang, 2012;Jiang et al, 2012a-b;Ghorbani et al, 2013).…”