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The adsorption process investigates the adsorption kinetic of ciprofloxacin onto banana peels-based activated carbon (BPAC) with a batch process. The pyrolysis method prepared the banana peel-based activated carbon (BPAC). XRD investigated the crystallinity of the BPAC. The effect of shaking time, pH, concentration of BPAC, concentration of ciprofloxacin in aqueous solution, and time duration. The maximum removal percentage of ciprofloxacin from its aqueous solution was 98.7 %. In the kinetic study, the pseudo-first and second-order linear and non-linear equations were fitted with experimental data using the origin LAB program. The pseudo-first-order linear equation R 2 values have an R 2 of 0.9103. In contrast, the R 2 values of the linear equations about pseudo-second-order of types I, II, III, and IV are 0.9982, 0.9968, 0.9986, and 0.9886, respectively. Considering the R 2 values, linear pseudo-second-order types III & IV are preferable for ciprofloxacin elimination from its aqueous solution.