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. 2022 Apr 18;7(17):14820–14831. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c00274

Table 6. Adsorption Capacity for the Hg Removal by Different Adsorbents.

adsorbent Qmax Hg (mg/g) ref
commercial AC 12.38 Namasivayam and Periasamy (1993)46
commercial AC 60.08 Zhu et al. (2009)47
Casuarina equisetifolia-based AC 43.86 Ranganathan (2003)48
Ceiba pentandra hulls-based AC 25.88 Rao et al. (2009)49
Cicer arietinum-based AC 22.88  
biochar-based AC 4.57 Tan et al. (2016)50
coal-based AC 48.0 Guo et al. (2016)51
sago waste-based AC 55.6 Kadirvelu et al. (2016)52
polyethylenimine modified AC 16.39 Saleh et al. (2017)28
polymer carbon nanofiber 19.2 Al-Yaari et al. (2021)42
polyacrylate-modified carbon 76.3 this work