Mtbe

Effects on Soil and Groundwater Resources

Jacques Guertin, Christy Herron, James A. Jacobs

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN: 9781040205808
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Biological Sciences

Written by an expert team of scientists, engineers, and toxicologists, MTBE: Effects on Soil and Ground-Water Resources provides complete in-depth coverage of the assessment and potential remediation strategies of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). In addition to a history and overview of fuel oxygenates and MTBE, the book contains the latest info

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• About the authors
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 History and overview of fuel oxygenates and MTBE
• Chapter 3 Physical and chemical properties of MTBE
• Chapter 4 Toxicity, health effects, and taste and odor thresholds of MTBE
• Chapter 5 Transport and fate of MTBE in the environment
• Chapter 6 Detection and treatment of MTBE in soil and groundwater
• Chapter 7 MTBE: a perspective on environmental policy
• Chapter 8 Conclusions and recommendations
• Appendix A — Glossary of technical terms and acronyms used in this book
• Appendix B — Conversions for international system (SI metric) and United States units
• Appendix C — Material safety data sheets: MTBE and gasoline
• Appendix D — Summary of MTBE state-by-state cleanup standards
• Appendix E — Geologic principles and MTBE
• Appendix F — MTBE: subsurface investigation and cleanup
• Appendix G — Synthesis, properties, and environmental fate of MTBE and oxygenate chemicals
• Appendix H — Plume geometries for subsurface concentrations of MTBE
• Appendix I — Toxicity of MTBE: human health risk calculations
• Appendix J — MTBE web sites
• Appendix K — Summary of MTBE remediation technologies
• Bibliography and reading list