Evonik Produces BioMTBE with Material Refined from Crude Glycerin
Submitted by admin on October 24, 2012 – 3:48 pmNo Comment
by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine) While petroleum-based methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) has largely been replaced with ethanol as a gasoline additive in the U.S. due to environmental concerns of groundwater contamination, Evonik recently announced it has been producing commercial volumes of a biobased version of the antiknock agent using an ingredient refined from crude glycerin, a coproduct of the biodiesel production process. Rainer Fretzen, the head of Evonik’s performance intermediates business line, said Evonik’s bioMTBE is “the only commercially available, next-generation biofuel component for gasoline in Germany.”
Evonik produces its bioMTBE from isobutene and biobased methanol. READ MORE
