“…Some of the most popular types of clay minerals (kaolinite, illite, montmorillonite, vermiculite, sepiolite, bentonite) have been tested to remove by adsorption a variety of organic pollutants such as dyes [182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191], pesticides [74,[192][193][194][195][196], PAHs [124,189,197], pharmaceuticals [74,75,157,[175][176][177], phenolic compounds [125,174,198] and other aromatics [124,174,189,198]. In the vast majority of these studies the organic substances are removed most commonly from pure water solutions in batch adsorption assays.…”