The aim of this work was to study the continuous mineralization of antipyrine present in a synthetic municipal wastewater effluent (SE) in a semi-industrial UV/solar compound parabolic collector (CPC) plant using a homogeneous photo-Fenton oxidation assisted with ferrioxalate. Under the selected continuous operating conditions ([H2O2]=750 ppm, [Fe] =12 ppm, pH= 2.7, and [(COOH)(2)center dot 2H(2)O]= 66.2 ppm, flowrate=1200 L/h, 77% of TOC is removed when treating an aqueous synthetic effluent containing 50 ppm of antipyrine. The use of artificial UV lamps together with solar radiation increases mineralization up to 88%. Determination of the hydrogen peroxide consumed and remaining in the water revealed that 4.7 mol of H2O2 were consumed per each mol of total organic carbon removed from solution. The operational costs due to the consumption of reagents and catalysts were calculated from the optimal conditions. The results showed that the ferrioxalate-assisted solar photo-Fenton process was economically feasible with no electric consumption due to the use of photovoltaic panels. Under optimal conditions, a total cost of 2.78 cent is an element of/g TOC removed (1.56 is an element of/m(3)) was calculated. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.