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Refining Used Lubricating Oils
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Refining Used Lubricating Oils

by James Speight, Douglas I. Exall
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
466 pages
17h 36m
English
CRC Press
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Manufacture of
Lubricating Oil
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The constant demand for products such as liquid fuels is the main driving force
behind the petroleum industry. Indeed, fuel products—for example, gasoline, kero-
sene, and diesel fuel—are the prime products of the current era. In addition, other
products, such as lubricating oils, waxes, and asphalt, have also added to the popu-
larity of petroleum as an important resource. Petroleum products are the basic mate-
rials used for the manufacture of synthetic bers for clothing and in plastics, paints,
fertilizers, insecticides, soaps, and synthetic rubber. In fact, the use of petroleum
as a sourc
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ISBN: 9781466551497