Phenolic contamination is majorly sourced by industrial effluents (by activities like petroleum refining, plastic manufacturing and effluents released from dye industries in the form of Azo-dyes which contain nitrophenols) . Phenol is used in chemical industries to produce derivatives such as alkylphenols, resins, aniline and cresols . It also finds a noteworthy application in energy sector , pharmaceutical sector , textile, pesticides , and explosive industries from where the effluents or/and influents are discharged into the water bodies contributing in polluting them. As the phenolic compounds are highly reactive, they have the tendency of interacting and reacting with other components present in the aquatic environment such as the interaction of phenols with microbes and with inorganic compounds . Once in the environment, the phenolic compounds undergo metabolic transformation readily oxidising to quinone radicals that is known to have toxic effects on humans by forming covalent bonds with protein which can lead to DNA damage . Other phenolic compounds such as chlorophenols, nitrophenols, aminophenol, bisphenol A are identified to have adverse effects on human . The effects may include disrupting the development of mammary glands and delaying the onset of puberty in females , damage the vital organs like heart, kidney, liver, lungs and stomach . Conventional methods like adsorption, chemical oxidation, microbial degradation, membrane separation are used to reduce phenols from waste water, however due to the high polarity and chemical persistence of phenolic compounds these methods have relatively low efficiency (as low as 20-40%) in reducing phenolic derivatives from water system .