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REMEDIATION OF MTBE - CONTAMINATED WATER: STUDIES ON THE DEGRADATION OF MTBE INTERMEDIATES USING THE FENTON'S REAGENT
Citation:
Burbano, A. A., D. D. Dionysiou, T Richardson*, AND M. T. Suidan. REMEDIATION OF MTBE - CONTAMINATED WATER: STUDIES ON THE DEGRADATION OF MTBE INTERMEDIATES USING THE FENTON'S REAGENT. Presented at 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 8/26-30/01.
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The recent findings of unusual oncentrations of MTBE in groundwater aquifers and surface waters [1] originated most probably from the leaking of underground storage gasoline tanks [2[ has led to a series of judicial and legislative actions, especially in the state of California where its use as a gasoline oxygenate has been banned [3]. This water pollution issue has stimulated extensive research efforts for its treatment in-situ or ex-situ throughout the United States [7-14]. MTBE is considered a potential health hazard [4], but research supporting this hyprothesis is still limited and more conclusions are awaited from other studies currently in progress [6]. MTBE can be degraded biologically [7, 8], but this process is usually incomplete, leaves the intermediate byproducts of the reaction untreated, and requires high residence times to reach an acceptable treatment efficiency. On the other hand, MTBE's poor adsorption on GAC hinders this process to be considered as a viable treatment alternative [7]. Consequently, fast and destructive physical-chemical methods are becoming more popular alternatives for solving this problem.