Oxygenates in Gasoline

Abstract

Preface Part 1: Occurence in the Environment 1. Methyl tert-Butyl Ether in Ground and Surface Water of the United States: National-Scale Relations between MTBE Occurrence in Surface and Ground Water and MTBE Use in Gasoline 2. Nonpoint Source Methyl tert-Butyl Ether Movement through the Environment: Ultra-Low Level (ppt) Measurements in California 3. Methyl tert-Butyl Ether at California Leaking Underground Fuel-Tank Sites: Observations and Implications 4. Opening Pandora's Box: Overview of States' Responses to the Methyl tert-Butyl Ether Enigma 5. Use and Occurrence of Fuel Oxygenates in Europe Part 2: Health Risks, Assessments, and Physical Properties 6. Health Risk Issues for Methyl tert-Butyl Ether 7. tert-Butyl Alcohol: Chemical Properties, Production and Use, Fate and Transport, Toxicology, and Detection in Groundwater and Regulatory Standards 8. Ethyl tert-Butyl Ether and Methyl tert-Butyl Ether: Status, Review, and Alternative Use: Exploring the Environmental Issues of Mobile, Recalcitrant Compounds in Gasoline 9. Beyond Methyl tert-Butyl Ether: Applying the Precautionary Principle to Gasoline Oxygenates Part 3: Oxidative Chemistry and Remediation Technologies 10. Stability of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether, tert-Amyl Methyl Ether, and Ethyl tert-Butyl Ether in Acidic Media 11. The Electron-Beam Process for the Destruction of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether 12. TiO2, Photocatalysis of Gasoline Oxygenates, Kinetic Parameters, and Effects of Catalyst Types and Loading on the Degradation of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether 13. Fenton's Reagent for Destruction of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether and Other Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Water 14. Overview of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether Remediation and Treatment Strategies 15. Evaluation of the Absorption Process for the Removal of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether from Drinking Water Part 4: Biological Degradation Processes 16. Biodegradability of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether and tert-Butyl Alcohol 17. Applying Co-Metabolic Biological Reactions for the Ex-Situ Treatment of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether Contaminated Groundwater Appendices Appendix A: Physical Properties of Fuel Oxygenates and Additives Appendix B: Polar Fuel Constituents: Compound Indentification and Partitioning between Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids and Water INDICES Author Index Subject Index