“…At acidic pH, the uptake of phenolics by different adsorbents is enhanced because the phenols are undissociated and the dispersion interactions predominate (Grant and King, 1990;Dargaville et al, 1996;Dabrowski et al, 2005;Mohanty et al, 2005;Mohan and Karthikeyan, 1997;García-Araya et al, 2003;Ugurlu et al, 2005;Caqueret et al, 2008). Hydrogen may plays an important role (Chanda et al, 1983;Grohmann et al, 1999;Ku and Lee, 2000;Ku et al, 2004;Kammerer et al, 2010a;Navarro et al, 2008a;Saleh et al, 2008;Bretag et al, 2009a;Bretag et al, 2009b;Zhang et al, 2009b;Liu et al, 2010a;Liu et al, 2010b;Pompeu et al, 2010).…”