Methyl tert-butyl ether MTBE

Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE). Methyl tert-hutyi ether [1634-04-4] is made by the etherification of isobutylane with methanol, and there are six commercially proven technologies available. These technologies have been developed by Arco, IFF, CDTECH, Phillips, Snamprogetti, and Hbls (hcensed jointly with UOP). The catalyst in all cases is an acidic ion-exchange resin. The United States has been showing considerable interest in this product. Western Europe has been manufacturing it since 1973 (ANIC in Italy and Huls in Germany). Production of MTBE in Western Europe exceeded 600,000 tons in 1990. 

Oxygen was added as oxygenated hydrocarbon components methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), di-isopropyl ether (DIPE), ethanol, methanol, and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA). The properties of oxygenates, as they relate to gasoline blending, are shown in Table 10-1. 

A variety of mobile phases have been employed for carotenoid separation by reversed phase HPLC. Most are based on MeOH or acetonitrile, with the addition of CH2CI2, THF, methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), acetone, or EtOAc. In general, recoveries of carotenoids are higher with methanol-based systems compared to acetonitrile-based ones." ... 

Enrichment factors have been used in stndies with methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) that is a fuel additive and is a widespread contaminant in snbsnrface aquatic systems. 

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) Methanol + Aobutylene... 

California EPA, Public Health Goal for Methyl Tert Butyl Ether (MTBE) in Drinking Water, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento, CA. Available at http //www.oehha.ca.gov/ water/phg/allphgs.html, 1999. 

Biopract provides technological products and processes for industry, agriculture, and environment. They not only produce technical enzyme preparations but also develop enzymes for applications in agriculture, food, and textile industry as well as in environmental technologies. On the later, bioremediation has been an area of service delivery from Biopract. Their activities regards microbial preparations for the bioremediation of organic contaminants (mineral oil (MKW), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene (BTEX), methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), volatile organic hydrocarbons (VOC), and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)). 

Methyl tert-butylhydroquinone, 20 105 Methyl-tertiary-butyl ether. See Methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) Methyltestosterone, registered for use in aquaculture in Australia, 3 222t Nb-Methyl tetrahydrofolic acid, 25 802 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (METHF),... 

This strategy appears to be very attractive because of the possibility of completely solubilizing the support in most of the common solvents. From a chemical perspective, that property allows one to benefit from all the solvent conditions used in classical solution chemistry. This could prove to be very advantageous, especially to obtain stereoselective glycosylation without neighboring-group assistance. Moreover, isolation and purification of the polymer is easily achieved by precipitation usually in diethyl ether or methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and recrystallisation from ethanol. One major drawback of this type of support is its tendency to solidify at low temperature, thus limiting the variety of temperature conditions. 

M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7 aqueous glucose solution ketoreductase enzyme (Codexis Inc) glucose dehydrogenase enzyme (Codexis Inc) methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)... 

Mixed C4 olefins (primarily iC4) are isolated from a mixed C olefin and paraffin stream. Two different liquid adsorption high-purity C olefin processes exist the C4 Olex process for producing isobutylene (iCf ) and the Sorbutene process for producing butene-1. Isobutylene has been used in alcohol synthesis and the production of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and isooctane, both of which improve octane of gasoHne. Commercial 1-butene is used in the manufacture of both hnear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE)., polypropylene, polybutene, butylene oxide and the C4 solvents secondary butyl alcohol (SBA) and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK). While the C4 Olex process has been commercially demonstrated, the Sorbutene process has only been demonstrated on a pilot scale. 

Butane isomerization is usually carried out to have a source of isobutane which is often reacted with C3-C5 olefins to produce alkylate, a high octane blending gasoline [13]. An additional use for isobutane was to feed dehydrogenation units to make isobutene for methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) production, but since the phaseout of MTBE as an oxygenate additive for gasoline, this process has decHned in importance. Zeolitic catalysts have not yet been used industriaUy for this transformation though they have been heavily studied (Table 12.1). 

Olefins, unlike paraffins, do not show significant gains in octane number with skeletal isomerization (see Table 14.2). As a result, olefin isomerization is not a useful octane boosting strategy. However, tertiary olefins (olefins with three alkyl substituents on the double bond), do react fairly readily with olefins to form ethers, which do have good octane numbers-for example, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE). 

Methyl tert-Butyl Ether MTBE Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether under Noncyclic Aliphatic or Aromatic Ethers Molybdenum... 

An ether called methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE) has traditionally been used as a fuel oxygenate to reduce toxic air emissions from automobiles ... 

In practice, short-chain alkanes and alkenes are normally used as feedstock for shape-selective catalytic formation of isooctanes at relatively low temperatures. Until the 1980s, lead alkyls (Section 18.1) were added to most automotive fuels to help suppress engine knock, but they have been phased out in North America because of the chronic toxicity of lead and lead compounds. The most commonly used nonlead antiknock additive is now methyl tert-butyl ether [MTBE CH30C(CH3)3], which is made by the reaction of methanol with 2-methylpropene, (CHs C—CH2 (see Section 7.4). The latter is obtained by catalytic cracking of petroleum fractions to give 1-butene, which is then shape-selectively isomerized on zeolitic catalysts. 

Isomerization. Isomerization is a catalytic process which converts normal paraffins to isoparaffins. The feed is usually light virgin naphtha and the catalyst platinum on an alumina or Zeolite base. Octanes may be increased by over 30 numbers when normal pentane and normal hexane are isomerized. Another beneficial reaction that occurs is that any benzene in the feed is converted to cyclohexane. Although isomerization produces high quality blendstocks, it is also used to produce feeds for alkylation and etherification processes. Normal butane, which is generally in excess in the refinery slate because of RVP concerns, can be isomerized and then converted to alkylate or to methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) with a small increase in octane and a large decrease in RVP. 

For instance, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) used worldwide as an octane improver in gasoline is produced at a still growing global capacity of approx. 8 million mt/yr using sulfonated resins as catalysts (ref. 1). 

CHjOH + isoC4H8 - methyl tert. butyl ether (MTBE) Acid-type ion-exchange resin... 

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