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Race to license new MTBE and TAME routes heats up

Journal Article · · Chemical Week; (United States)
OSTI ID:6778119
With refineries and petrochemical manufacturers continuing to gear up production of oxygenates for use in reformulated fuels, new routes to methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME) are clearly hot items in the licensing market. And probably nowhere has the competition become as intense as in offerings for skeletal isomerization technologies to boost ethers production from fluid catalytic cracking and steam cracking.
OSTI ID:
6778119
Journal Information:
Chemical Week; (United States), Journal Name: Chemical Week; (United States) Vol. 152:1; ISSN CHWKA9; ISSN 0009-272X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English