Adsorption of atrazine herbicide from water by diospyros kaki fruit waste activated carbon

• High surface area activated carbon derived from Diospyros kaki fruit waste; Remarkable adsorption capacity for aqueous-phase atrazine; Linear driving force (LDF) model provides good fit to kinetic data; Activated efficient remove atrazine in real river samples. In this work, waste was employed as a precursor material develop high carbon, which efficiently removed the toxic herbicide (ATZ) synthetic water solutions and waters. The alternative presented excellent characteristics structure, including values of specific (1067 m 2 g ?1 ) pore volume (0.530 cm 3 some important functional groups on surface. temperature positively influenced capacity, 194.20 211.51 mg . Freundlich proper one represent equilibrium data. Thermodynamic parameters confirmed endothermic nature process. Kinetic studies that reached until 240 min, regardless ATZ initial concentration. LDF adjusted well data, resulting diffusion coefficient ranging 0.89x10 -9 1.63x10 s concentration increased. also decreased 85% sample. Overall, developed an removal aqueous matrices.