“…The raw material has a very large influence on the characteristics and performance of the resulting activated carbon. There have been many studies on the production of low-cost activated carbons from agricultural wastes such as corn cob (Tsai et al 1997(Tsai et al , 2001), pomegranate seeds (Uçar et al 2009), date pits (Girgis and El-Hendawy 2002;Belhachami et al 2009), apricot stone (Gergova andEser 1996;Savova et al 2001;Shalaby et al 2006), pistachio nut shell (Lua and Yang 2009), almond shell, nut shell, peach stone (Savova et al 2001;Heschel and Klose 1995), oat hulls, corn stover (Fan et al 2004), peanut hull , apple pulp (Suárez-Garcia et al 2002), coconut shell (Mozammel et al 2002;Hu et al 2001), soybean oil cake (Tay et al 2009), hazelnut shell (Heschel andKlose 1995;Kobya 2004), grapeseed (Savova et al 2001;Gergova et al 1994), bamboo (Liu et al 2010), sour cherry stone (Savova et al 2001), pecan shells (Klasson et al 2009), olive stone (Savova et al 2001;Sabio and Rodriguez-Reinoso 2004) and rice husk (Yalcin and Sevinc 2000).…”