DWESD Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions DWESD Drink. Water Eng. Sci. Discuss. 1996-9481 Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/dwes-2018-1 Removal of Dyes from Simulated Wastewater using Low Cost Activated Carbon Derived from Date Pits Mohammed Salam A. 1 Mabood Fazal 2 Abdlatef Warda 1 Wadi Iman 1 Yousif Emad 3 Abd Ali Ali 3 Department of Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, University of Nizwa, 616 Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Nizwa, 616 Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq 12 02 2018 2018 1 8 Copyright: © 2018 Salam A. Mohammed et al. 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://dwes.copernicus.org/preprints/dwes-2018-1.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://dwes.copernicus.org/preprints/dwes-2018-1.pdf

There have been a lot of concerns regarding the pollution in aquatic resources. Since then, there has been a remarkable scientific work in order to remove all sorts of pollutants and offer a reasonably clean environment. In this effort, we show synthesis and characterization of activated carbon (AC) from date pits by various thermal treatments and two different porosities. Furthermore, we demonstrate the removal of four hazardous dyes from simulated waste water via adsorption using three packed bed column as semi batch process. The adsorption experiments demonstrated smooth running flow for the threated water and good removal efficiency for all dyes with some variations. These variations will be adequately displayed and discussed.