The electron-beam process for the destruction of methyl tert-butyl ether
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Cooper, WJ, Tobien, T, Mezyk, SP et al. (2002). The electron-beam process for the destruction of methyl tert-butyl ether
. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, 799 153-164.
Cooper, WJ, Tobien, T, Mezyk, SP et al. (2002). The electron-beam process for the destruction of methyl tert-butyl ether
. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, 799 153-164.
Large-scale studies were conducted to examine the effectiveness of the electron beam process to treat water containing MTBE. The source of the water for the experiments was treated ground water (Miami, FL drinking water) to which varying concentrations of MTBE were added. Experiments conducted at low concentrations (∼500 μg L-1) and at high concentrations (∼2,000 and 31,000 μg L-1) demonstrated that the process can achieve destruction of the MTBE over a wide concentration range. Preliminary kinetic modeling shows good agreement at a lower pH, while the difference between the observed and modeled results at higher pH are most likely attributable to the presence of monochloramine in the water used to conduct the large-scale studies.
