In this work commercial ceramic material aluminum oxide (alumina, Al2O3) was grafted and extended by three different monomers using free radical polymerization. These monomers are acrylic acid, 4-(4'-butoxy- and 4'-octoxybenzylideneamino) phenylmthacrylate to produce three polymers; polymer A, polymer B and polymer C. The last two polymers showed liquid crystalline properties. The ability of these three alumina-grafted polymers was examined for adsorption of phenol and p-chlorophenol under different conditions i.e., initial concentrations, pH and temperatures.

This thesis concerns with the use of Iraqi Clay (attapulgite) for the removal of hazardous organic water pollutants, namely o-nitrophenol, m-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol from their aqueous solutions. Attapulgite was modified by surfactant (hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDTMA)). Attapulgite and its modified form (A-HDTMA), were purified, sampled and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), FTIR spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) technique. Batch experiments were carried out at pre determined equilibration time, solution pH,...