Carbonaceous adsorbent prepared from waste tires: Experimental and computational evaluations of organic dye methyl orange

This work reports the recycling of waste rubber tires (WRT) to produce a carbonaceous material as adsorbent of an environmental value. The produced material was activated by thermal–chemical process. The WRT-derived carbonaceous adsorbent (CA) was characterized by means of scanning electron microscope, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques. The developed CA was tested and evaluated as potential...