TY - JOUR T1 - Adsorption of glyphosate onto activated carbon derived from waste newspaper A1 - Mobarekeh, Mohsen Nourouzi LA - English PB - Taylor & Francis YR - 2010 UL - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:12945 AB - This paper investigates the ability of activated carbon derived from waste newspaper (WNAC) to remove pesticide glyphosate from aqueous solution. The influence of initial pH was first studied. It was found that the WNAC presented the highest uptake capacity at pH 2.5. Adsorption isotherm models such as Langmuir, Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson were used to describe the adsorption of glyphosate by WNAC. The results show that the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model best fits the experimental data. The maximum adsorption capacity of WNAC is found to be 48.4 mg/g. ER -