Characterization of Sulfur Compounds in MTBE

Table 3

Complicated sulfur compounds found in MTBE.

Sulfur compounds	Sulfur forms, %
	MTBE01	MTBE02	MTBE03	MTBE04	MTBE05
	0.00379	0.00404	0.09774	0.0044.3	0.0123.0
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00063	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00075	0.00086	0.00845	0.00019	0.00058
Light complicated identified sulfur	0.00454	0.00490	0.10682	0.00462	0.01288
Light complicated identified sulfur, %	86.6	13.8	31.1	13.5	17.6
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00020	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00012	0.00013	0.00780	0.00033	0.00031
	0.00043	0.00050	0.02891	0.00122	0.00103
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00284	0.00060	0.00079
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00105	0.00015	0.00027
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00289	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00179	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00000	0.00073	0.00000	0.00109	0.00049
	0.00000	0.00074	0.00000	0.00110	0.00048
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00215	0.00000	0.00000
	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00033
	0.00000	0.00015	0.00000	0.00046	0.00024
	0.00000	0.00015	0.00000	0.00046	0.00023
Heavy complicated sulfur	0.00055	0.00240	0.04743	0.00541	0.00417
Heavy complicated sulfur, %	10.5	6.7	13.8	15.8	5.7
Total unidentified sulfur	0.00015	0.00005	0.00438	0.00160	0.00246
Total unidentified sulfur, %	2.9	0.1	1.3	4.7	3.4
Total sulfur in MTBE	0.00524	0.03557	0.34443	0.03424	0.07329