BioETBE A New Component for Gasoline

Transportation infrastructures require, or at least privilege, the availability of liquid fuels. In the field of transportation fuel, biofuels are the most feasible alternative to fossil fuels. 

Biofuels, in fact, can be produced in a cost effective way, are commercially available, have been successfully tested in various countries, are compatible with the present technologies and, further, are environmentally friendly, with a use in line with sustainable development. 

In this scenario biodiesel, bioethanol and ETBE (ethyl tert-butyl ether), the ether obtained from bioethanol and isobutene, are the compounds normally utilized as fuels. In particular, ETBE is playing an increasingly important role in the gasoline pool composition owing to its superior properties, which represent a trade-off between the needs of refiners and the severe expectations and regulations of environmental stakeholders. 

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