The presence of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals in aquatic means presents as a serious threat, since their real consequences for the environment and human health are not well known. Therefore, this work consisted of preparing and characterize sludge-derived activated carbons (beverage sludge activated carbon – BSAC and acid-treated beverage sludge activated carbon - ABSAC) to investigate their use in the pharmaceuticals adsorption in aqueous media. The morphology study has demonstrated that ABSAC, unlike BSAC, exhibited an abundant porous structure, with smaller particles and bigger roughness. Adsorption results indicated that the ABSAC was more effective that BSAC, since it presented superior surface area (642 m² g^-1) and total pore volume (0.485 cm³ g^-1) values. Pseudo-second-order kinetic model was more suitable to predict experimental data. Sips model best described the equilibrium data, with maximum adsorption capacities of 145, 105, and 57 mg g^-1 for paracetamol, ibuprofen, and ketoprofen, respectively. Besides, the sludge-derived adsorbent was highly efficient in the treatment of a simulated drug effluent, removing 85.16% of the pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, the material prepared in this work possesses intrinsic characteristics that make it a remarkable adsorbent to be applied in the treatment of pharmaceutical contaminants contained in industrial wastewater.

由于人们不了解其对环境和人类健康的实际后果，因此水生手段中出现的新兴污染物（例如药物）构成了严重威胁。因此，这项工作包括制备和表征污泥来源的活性炭（饮料污泥活性炭– BSAC和酸处理的饮料污泥活性炭– ABSAC），以研究它们在药物在水性介质中的吸附作用。形态学研究表明，与BSAC不同，ABSAC表现出丰富的多孔结构，具有较小的颗粒和较大的粗糙度。吸附结果表明，ABSAC比BSAC更有效，因为它具有优越的表面积（642 m ² g ^-1）和总孔体积（0.485 cm ^3）g ^-1）值。伪二级动力学模型更适合于预测实验数据。Sips模型最能描述平衡数据，对乙酰氨基酚，布洛芬和酮洛芬的最大吸附容量分别为145、105和57 mg g ^-1。此外，污泥衍生的吸附剂在模拟药物流出物中的处理效率很高，可去除85.16％的药物化合物。因此，这项工作中制备的材料具有固有的特性，使其成为用于处理工业废水中所含药物污染物的出色吸附剂。