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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 131, Issue 6, Pages 983-987Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2005)131:6(983)
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Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is frequently used as a gasoline additive to reduce carbon monoxide emissions froth vehicles. Alternative fuel oxygenates are also used separately or in conjunction with MTBE including ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME), diisopropyl ether (DIPE), tert-butyl alcohol (TBA), and ethanol (EtOH). Granular activated carbon (GAC) sorption is a proven technology for the removal of the ether oxygenates while the alcohols are not well adsorbed. In this research, Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms coefficients were developed based on linearized forms of the models for MTBE, ETBE, TAME, and DIPE (R-2 > 0.97) on two common bituminous coal GACs:Calgon F400 and F600. No significant adsorption of either TBA or EtOH was observed on these carbons. The relative capacities on both Calgon F400 and F600 were DIPE > TAME > ETBE > MTBE > TBA, EtOH.
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