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) an ii pe on t sed r eq coe nth of p as env conta hey ex m ma, coki l as ph and Du the receiving large bodies of water reservoirs. Biological treatment, activated carbon adsorption, solvent extraction, chemical oxida-tion and electrochemical methods are the most widely used meth-ods for removing phenol and phenolic compounds from wastewaters (Ra et al., 2008). Problems such as high cost, low effi-ciency, and generation of toxic by-products are limiting factors for wide applications of some of these remediation strategies. Funalia trogii pellets. The selected organism offers several advanta-ges over already studied counterparts. While it forms a substan-tially high biomass for removal of toxic heavy chemicals from aqueous solutions, it also readily grows on cheap carbon sources (i.e., cellulose) and possesses several extra-cellular enzymes for bioremediation of various xenobiotics. In order to evaluate re-moval mechanism and kinetics, the effects of the removal param-eters such as: (i) pH, (ii) temperature, (iii) equilibrium time and (iv) effect of phenolic compound concentrations on the removal efficiency were investigated