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The use of agricultural by-products such as  Moringa oleifera  plants is one effort to support the reduction of environmental pollution. Activated carbon produces from agricultural wastes is relatively less expensive and can replace traditional methods such as renewable as well as nonrenewable materials such as petroleum residue and coal. In this study, the removal of bisphenol A from aqueous media was studied using activated carbon produced from  M. oleifera  pods and peels. A batch adsorption study was carried out by varying the parameters of the adsorption process. A maximum removal percentage of 95.46% was achieved at optimum conditions of 2.5 g L −1  adsorbent dose, pH 7, 60 min contact time and 20 mg L −1  initial concentration of BPA. The BET surface areas of MOP, MOP-AC and MOP-ACZ were found to be 12.60, 4.10 and 45.96 m 2 /g, respectively. The experimental data were analyzed by Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin adsorption isotherm models. Equilibrium data fitted well with the Langmuir isotherm with a maximum monolayer adsorption capacity of 20.14 mg g −1 . The rates of adsorption were found to conform to the pseudo-second-order kinetics with a good correlation. The results indicate that the  M. oleifera  activated carbon could be employed as a low-cost alternative to commercial activated carbon in the removal of BPA from water.

international journal of phytoremediation

Preparation and characterization of low-cost activated carbon from  Moringa oleifera  chemically activated using ZnCl 2  for the adsorption of bisphenol A