Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing book

Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing Avilino Sequeira
Publisher: CRC Press

Most products of Crude oil processing are usually grouped into three categories: light distillates (LPG, gasoline, naphtha), middle distillates (kerosene, diesel), heavy distillates and residuum (fuel oil, lubricating oils, wax, tar). Lubricants and base oils represent only about 1% of global oil demand, but they have had an outsized influence on the development of the world petroleum industry. You have to separate the different types of hydrocarbons to have anything useful. €�This new base oil is another clear example of Shell Lubricants' commitment to using In the last step of the process, the waxes are cracked and distilled into finished GTL products. Rafinerjia Nafte Brod, the sole oil refinery for Bosnia and Herzegovina, has selected refining process technology from a joint licensing alliance between Honeywell's UOP and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) to improve the It will also produce high-quality base oils that will be used for the production of Group II and Group III lubricants at Refineria Ulia Modricha, which is part of the oil refining production chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the early days of the oil industry, lubricants The feedstocks that move into base oil production have alternative destinations in fuels operations and many of the by-products of base oil production move back to the fuels side for processing and blending. €�The transition is expected to occur by mid 2011.” The plant produces base oil, process oils and wax. Some are predominantly naphthenes so yield a lubricating oil that is more sensitive to temperature changes than the paraffin-base crudes. A Canadian company has even developed a process to form micro wax and polymers into a structural material that does not require maintenance, in essence it is a wax brick. The oil portion of the cylinder stock is further processed to remove the resins. €�The arrival of the first shipment of GTL base oil to the Americas is an extremely exciting event for Shell Lubricants and our customers,” said Lisa Davis, president, Shell Commercial Fuels and Lubricants, Americas. This classification is based on the way crude oil is distilled and separated into fractions (called distillates and residuum) as can be seen in the above drawing. Mixed-Base Crude Oils: The "gray area" between the two types above. €�Following a strategic review, Imperial has decided to discontinue the manufacturing of lubricant base stock at its Sarnia refinery site,” Imperial Oil spokesman John Harding told Lube Report.