Abstract:The presence of pharmaceutical contaminants in nature is an environmental
problem generating increasing concerns. Due to this, it is necessary to
evaluate treatments that are capable of degrading these contaminants, such
as the advanced oxidation processes (AOP). In this work, the
photoperoxidation and photo-Fenton AOP were applied to degrade a mixture of
the drugs lamivudine and zidovudine, in aqueous medium and synthetic
effluent (SE). To this end, a bench reactor (UV-C; UV-A and sunlight
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