Study of equilibrium and kinetics of adsorption of resorcinol from aqueous solutions onto activated carbon cloth

The increasing public concerns for environmental problems, especially the pollution of water resource, highlight the treatment process of wastewater. Phenolic compounds have high toxicity, high solubility and further, widely exist in the effluents of many industries such as paper, textile, pulp, steel, petrochemical, petroleum, rubber, dyes, plastic, pharmaceutical and so on. The focus of this work is to investigate the effect of temperature on the adsorption of resorcinol (a phenolic compound) from aqueous solution onto activated carbon cloth.