Characterization of Sulfur Compounds in MTBE

Table 2

Common sulfur compounds in MTBE.

Sulfur compounds	Sulfur forms, S%
	MTBE01	MTBE02	MTBE03	MTBE04	MTBE05
Methanethiol	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00018
Ethanethiol	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00016	0.00041
Dimethyl sulfide	0.00000	0.00014	0.00000	0.00000	0.00046
tert-Butanothiol	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00005	0.00000
Isobutanothiol	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000	0.00008	0.00000
Diethyl sulfide	0.00000	0.00000	0.00075	0.00000	0.00000
Isopropyl methyl sulfide	0.00000	0.00000	0.00014	0.00000	0.00054
Dimethyl disulfide	0.00005	0.02440	0.12556	0.01990	0.04910
Methyl ethyl disulfide	0.00000	0.00106	0.05485	0.00200	0.00250
Diethyl disulfide	0.00000	0.00000	0.00386	0.00041	0.00014
Propyl methyl disulfide	0.00000	0.00000	0.00043	0.00000	0.00000
Total common sulfur; identified	0.00000	0.02560	0.18559	0.02260	0.05378
Total common sulfur; identified, %	1.0	72.0	53.9	66.0	73.4
Total sulfur	0.00524	0.03557	0.34443	0.03424	0.07329
Other forms of sulfur, %	0.00519	0.00997	0.15884	0.01164	0.01951