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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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11Manufacture of Lubricating Oil
1.2.1.6 Catalytic Dewaxing and Hydroisomerization
The rst catalytic dewaxing and wax hydroisomerization technologies were com-
mercialized in the 1970s (Kramer et al. 2001). Catalytic dewaxing was a desirable
alternative to solvent dewaxing especially for conventional neutral oils because
it removed n-parafns and waxy side chains from other molecules by catalyti-
cally cracking them into smaller molecules. This process lowered the pour point
of the base oil so that it owed at low temperatures, like solvent dewaxed oils.
Hydroisomerization also saturated most of the remaining aromatics and removed
most of the remaining sulfur and nitrogen species.
In 1993, the rst modern wax hydroisomerization process was com ...
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