“…Adsorption technology is considered the most economically favorable technique to remove dyes among those available (i.e., membrane separation, oxidation, and irradiation) because of its high removal efficiency, low operation cost, and ability to separate a wide range of contaminants from industrial effluents. Various biosorbents derived from agricultural and industrial wastes have been efficiently applied to remove different types of dyes in the literature, such as acid, cationic, dispersive, direct, reactive, solvent, sulfur, and vat dyes (Annadurai et al, 2002;Gupta and Suhas, 2009;Contreras et al, 2012;Witek-Krowiak, 2013;Wang et al, 2014;Oladipo and Gazi, 2015;Roosta et al, 2015;Sadaf et al, 2015;Jeyagowri and Yamuna, 2016;Tahir et al, 2017). Although the removal efficiencies of biosorbents are lower than that of activated carbon, the industrial-scale utilization of these materials is economically attractive (Contreras et al, 2012).…”