DocumentCode
3339985
Title
Notice of Retraction
Study on Environmental Behavior and Effect Factor of MTBE in Surface Water
Author
Chen Jing-ying ; Zhang Xi-zhen
Author_Institution
Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., China Inst. of Technol., Fuzhou, China
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) is widely used as gasoline additive,so the quantity of MTBE entering the environment through various channels is increased. MTBE is a human suspected carcinogen, therefore, on the issue of MTBE pollution is very important and practical.In this paper, an analytical method of MTBE in water was investigated,the limit of determination is 0.244μg/L, the recovery is 89.4~100.3%. This experiment studied disappearing process , hydrolysis and effect factors of MTBE in surface water. The result of hydrolysis showed that the hydrolysis process of MTBE accords with the first order reaction kinetics model C=C0e-kt.When in the same temperature, MTBE hydrolyzed faster in acidic water. The result of indoors experiment shows that the disappearance half-life of MTBE is from 25.1 to 86.5d, this indicates MTBE is stable in environment, which provides a theoretical basis for pollution control and guidance on the safe use of MTBE in China.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) is widely used as gasoline additive,so the quantity of MTBE entering the environment through various channels is increased. MTBE is a human suspected carcinogen, therefore, on the issue of MTBE pollution is very important and practical.In this paper, an analytical method of MTBE in water was investigated,the limit of determination is 0.244μg/L, the recovery is 89.4~100.3%. This experiment studied disappearing process , hydrolysis and effect factors of MTBE in surface water. The result of hydrolysis showed that the hydrolysis process of MTBE accords with the first order reaction kinetics model C=C0e-kt.When in the same temperature, MTBE hydrolyzed faster in acidic water. The result of indoors experiment shows that the disappearance half-life of MTBE is from 25.1 to 86.5d, this indicates MTBE is stable in environment, which provides a theoretical basis for pollution control and guidance on the safe use of MTBE in China.
Keywords
hydrological techniques; organic compounds; water pollution control; water quality; China; MTBE analytical method; MTBE hydrolysis process; acidic water; effect factor; environmental behavior; first order reaction kinetics model; indoor experiment; methyl tert-butyl ether pollution; pollution control; surface water behavior; Mathematical model; Petroleum; Surface contamination; Temperature; Temperature sensors; Water pollution;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781223
Filename
5781223
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