“…So, phenol removal becomes a primary concern to the environmentalists, and more attention needs to develop a highly efficient treatment system. Several conventional and advanced oxidation processes (AOP) such as membrane filtration (Su et al ., 2019), coagulation (Qian et al ., 2017), ion exchange, electrolysis (Ma et al ., 2019), solid‐phase extraction (Yousef et al ., 2011), adsorption (Zagklis et al ., 2015), ozonation (Aziz et al ., 2018), UV/H 2 O 2 (Ma et al ., 2015) and Fenton reaction (Malakootian and Heidari, 2018) have been developed for the treatment of wastewater containing phenol. The conventional and AOP process have several limitations, which include high energy consumption, secondary pollutant generation and high cost (Banerjee and Ghoshal, 2011; Liu et al ., 2016).…”