The report highlights the increasing deployment of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in fuel additives, chemical intermediates, and others, which is accelerating global market growth. Reports ...

High levels of MTBE have caused cancer and other problems in laboratory animals, but the chemical’s effects on humans are unknown, according to the EPA’s Web site. The real concern ...

It remains unclear how much of the methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE, leaked after the 600-foot chemical tanker Carla Maersk collided with the 623-foot bulk carrier Conti Peridot about 12:40 p ...

The South Tahoe Public Utility District has a name for its pain. It’s called MTBE. A synthetic chemical oxygenate, MTBE is a gasoline additive which comprises 11 percent of the gasoline used in ...

China’s exports of a chemical used to improve the quality ... Exports of a group of chemicals that includes methyl tert-butyl ether, known as MTBE, rose to about 87,400 tons in May, according ...

The report by the factories department suggest that the mixture of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) prepared in the reactors was being transferred to a storage tank when the mixture leaked.

The distilled solvent which leaked was identified as Methylene Tertiary Butyl Ether or MTBE, a flammable liquid used as an additive in unleaded gasoline to achieve more efficient burning ...

“A solvent – MTBE (Methy Tertiary Butyl Ether) – had leaked and the workers tried to plug the leak. Gas formed and spread from the third floor to the lower floors of the building. Before the ...