Reduce the cost of producing TAME. [Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ethers]

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:7170657

Rock, K L; Gildert, G R ^[1]

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1. CDTECH, Houston, TX (United States)

The high atmospheric reactivity and resulting high ozone formation have been previously documented for C5 olefins. Other features such as low octane number and high vapor pressure limit their usefulness as gasoline blendstocks. Conversion of C[sub 5] olefins to TAME is a good way to upgrade these components into high value gasoline blendstocks. The TAME product has high octane and low vapor pressure as well as contained oxygen. The other option is to alkylate the C[sub 5] olefins. This route produces greater volume but with higher vapor pressure and lower octane value. The TAME route also achieves lower capital and operating cost than alkylation. The paper describes a process in which reactive Isoamylenes can be converted to TAME by etherification with methanol. The reactive isoamylenes include 2-methyl butene-1 and 2-methyl butene-2.

• OSTI ID: 7170657
• Report Number(s): CONF-9403125--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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