“…Sources of this compound include industrial effluents, such as petroleum refining, and production of pesticides, paint, plastic, resin, textile, iron, solvent, pharmaceutics and wood preserving chemicals and named as one of the priority pollutants by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Union (EU). The permissible limit of 4-CP in drinking water supply is 0.5 mg l -1 (Pera-Titus et al, 2004;Pi et al, 2007;Movahedyan et al, 2008;Gomez et al, 2009;Neppolian et al, 2011;Olaniran and Igbinosa, 2011). Due to 4-CP high toxicity and persistence in the environment, attention has been focused on its removal from the aqueous media.…”