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Methyl tert- butyl ether occurrence and degradation in water Autori: Camelia Beţianu, Florina Ungureanu, Loredana Branza, Lucian Vasile Pavel, Maria GavrilescuData aparitiei: March/April 2007 Revista: Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 2 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 Format PDF The use of gasoline oxygenated with MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) reduced significantly air pollution (16 - 23% lower emissions of CO and 18% lower emissions of unburned hydrocarbons) but increased water pollution. There is no European or national regulations for MTBE in drinking water except for Denmark, which has set a limit value of 30 µg/ L for MTBE. USEPA proposed a maximum concentration of 20- 40 µg/L. This paper is a review with 70 references on the MTBE production, use, properties and its behavior in the environment, potential health effects, occurrence in ground water/ surface water/ drinking water/ wastewater, water sample analysis, and methods to remove or degrade it in water. The conventional methods to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from drinking water- air stripping and adsorption on granular active carbon (GAC) - are not effective in the case of MTBE with concentrations of 100µg/L |