Underground Storage Tanks

EPA Sources

• Technologies for Treating MtBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates (PDF) (106 pp, 2.3MB, About PDF)
  EPA 542-R-04-009, May 2004.
• MTBE Treatment Profiles
  A project sponsored jointly by EPA's Technology Innovation Office and the Office of Underground Storage Tanks. This searchable web site contains data on almost 250 completed and ongoing applications of MTBE treatment for drinking water and contaminated media. The treatment profiles describe sites at which technologies (both in situ and ex situ/above-ground) have been used to treat MTBE in groundwater, soil, and drinking water. Technologies include air stripping and sparging, carbon adsorption, bioremediation (in situ and ex situ), in situ chemical oxidation, soil vapor and dual phase extraction, and pump-and-treat. More detailed reports are available for some of the sites.

Non-EPA Sources

• Biodegradation and Inhibitory Effects of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) Added to Microbial Consortia (PDF) (9 pp, 420K, About PDF)
  University of Northern Iowa, Environmental Programs, Cedar Falls, IA 50614.
• Biodegradation of MTBE and Other Oxygenates
  University of Notre Dame, Center for Environmental Science & Technology
• BioRemedy: A Proven Solution for MTBE
  Proprietary high activity enrichment mixed cultures (MC) and a single culture (SC) which can completely degrade MTBE to CO₂. Shell Global Solutions (U.S.)
• MTBE Research Supported by the UC Systemwide Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program
  University of California-Davis
• Does Competitive Inhibition Play a Role in MTBE Bioremediation?
  ORC Technical Bulletin #2232, Regenesis Bioremediation Products, Inc.
• In-line Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment for Removal of Organic Chemicals
  American Water Works Association (AWWA) September 1992
• Natural Attenuation of MTBE in the Subsurface under Methanogenic Conditions (59 pp, 1.5MB, About PDF)
  (EPA 600-R-00-006). This report was produced by the EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory. It is intended to answer the following questions: Can MTBE be biodegraded under methanogenic conditions in ground water that was contaminated by a fuel spill? Will biodegradation produce concentrations of MTBE that are less than regulatory standards? Is the rate of degradation in the laboratory adequate to explain the distribution of MTBE in the ground water at the field site? What is the relationship between the degradation of MTBE and degradation of the BTEX compounds? What is the rate of natural attenuation of the source area [January 2000, 59 pages]
• Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) MTBE Research
  • Assessment of the MTBE Problem
  • Analytical Methods
  • Transport and Fate
  • Remediation and Treatment
• Potential for the Bioremediation of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)
  ORC Technical Bulletin #2231, Regenesis Bioremediation Products, Inc.

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