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Removal of MTBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates During Drinking Water Treatment

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Fuel Oxygenates

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MTBE and other fuel oxygenates threaten the water sources for drinking water production. Due to their persistence in the environment, these substances pass through the subsoil unchanged and thus are not reliably retained by riverbank filtration. Conventional drinking water treatment technology—i.e., aeration and adsorption on activated carbon—are not able to remove them in a feasible manner. New adsorption materials show better performance but high costs and low availability prevent their use in drinking water production. Chemical oxidation by advanced oxidation technology (i.e., ozone/H2O2 or UV-induced advanced oxidation processes) is most likely able to eliminate MTBE and other ethers, however, only with high expenses. Nanofiltration might be an option since the retention by nanofiltration membranes is quite high. However, for the production of drinking water, the resulting water has to be further conditioned in order to meet drinking water standards. In this book chapter the treatment technologies currently available for water treatment are illuminated in detail on their potential for removing MTBE and other fuel oxygenates from water.

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Baus, C., Brauch, HJ. (2007). Removal of MTBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates During Drinking Water Treatment. In: Barceló, D. (eds) Fuel Oxygenates. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72641-8_12

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