Research Article
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 |
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