Table 1 shows that on average 94% of the adsorbed gas was recovered with microwave desorption while only 71% was recovered with conductive heating. However, with both techniques, the adsorption capacity remained steady over repeated adsorption regeneration cycles. In microwave desorption, an average net energy of 0.73 kJ/g was consumed to achieve such desorption, however, approximately 7.9 kJ/g was consumed in the case of conductive heating