The demands on gasoline quality are increasing for many reasons; such as improving vehicle performance and meeting environmental requirements. This is clearly illustrated in the Worldwide Fuel Charter developed by the world?s automobile manufacturers. These higher quality demands are leading to increasingly tighter gasoline specifications. ETBE?s blending properties help the petroleum industry to produce gasoline that meets these increasingly more stringent specifications at lower manufacturing investment costs and thereby at a lower cost to consumers and society.
This paper presents the benefits of MTBE as a component of the RFG and gives scientific proofs of the contribution of MTBE in reducing emissions from vehicles.
