“…brominated styrene-divinylbenzene resin, acrylic-type polymer and styrene divinyl benzene copolymer, the latter was found to be the most suited receiving phase for SPATT bags (MacKenzie et al, 2004). This type of macroreticular polymer is widely used for water treatment applications such as removal of phenolic compounds (Li et al, 2002), pesticides (Kyriakopoulos et al, 2005), salicylic acid (Otero et al, 2005) and phenylhydrazine derivatives (Zhai et al, 2003), as it offers a number of advantages over other adsorbents e.g. silica gels and alumina, such as ease of regeneration, high chemical stability and product availability for a wide range of pore sizes, densities and surface areas.…”