Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) Plants for Sale

Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) is used as an octane booster and as an oxygenate in gasoline. One of its major advantages is its good properties for blending and for increasing the octane levels of lead-free gasoline. Effectively, all US-produced MTBE is sold into the export market and destined for the Latin America market. MTBE can be empliyed in the petroehcmials industry to manufacture pure isobutene from C4 butane streams by reversing its formation reaction. It is a good solvent, used as a laboratory reagent to extract semi-volatile organic compounds from such sample types as leachates or solid wastes, and as a pharmaceutical agent to dissolve gallstones. Other outlets include the production of methacrolein and methyl methacrylate.