In this paper, the organoclay was prepared by modifying montmorillonite K30 with cetyltrimethylammounium bromide (CTAB). The sorption of phenol, m-nitrophenol, and o-cresol from single- and binary-solute solutions onto the organoclay was investigated. Experiments of batch equilibrium and kinetics as well as fixed bed were carried out. It was shown that the sorption capacity decreased in the order m-NP > o-cresol > phenol.The sorption capacity was decreased with the polarity and solubility of phenols increased. For sorption equilibrium, the Langmuir model (LM)and Dual-sorption model (DSM) were tested to fit the sorption isotherms of single-solute systems, and the Langmuir competitive model (LCM) was used to describe bi-solute sorption systems.Thermodynamic parameters were obtained from the experiments of varying temperature (5-45 oC). It was found that a decrease in the temperature would lead to an increase in sorption capacity. It was indicated the sorption process was exothermic (DHo = -6.7~ -3.6 kJ/mol) and spontaneous (DSo > 0, DGo < 0). A simplified kinetic model was proposed to confirm the sorption mechanism. Fixed-bed experiments were carried out as a function of type of phenols, velocity, feed concentration, and bed height. The axial dispersion equation and constant pattern wave equation were used. The results showed that exhaustion time increased with decreasing velocity and concentration, but increasing bed height. Beside, the correlations were used to calculate the axial dispersion coefficient DL, liquid-phase mass transfer kL and pore diffusion coefficient Dp.