Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ether (TAME) Unit

15,000 BPD Capacity 

The purpose of the TAME unit is to  produce tertiary amyl methyl ether from  isoamylene, for blending into gasoline for  octane enhancement as well as  increasing the oxygen content as  required by the Clean Air Act of 1990.  The feed to the TAME unit comes from  the Merox treated C5 from the FCC/Gas  Concentration units.  The TAME unit can  be divided into 4 major sections:  Feed Preparation  Selective Hydrogenation  TAME Reaction and Fractionation  Methanol Extraction and Recovery