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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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7
Refining Processes for
Used Oil Recycling to
Base Oils or Fuels
7.1 INTRODUCTION
The objective of re-rening used lubricating oil is to provide a source of valuable
base oil that is suffering from decreased availability. In the re-rening process, used
lubricating (mainly automotive) oil undergoes an extensive series of processes to
remove contaminants, distill the used oil, and reform the oil molecules to produce
new base oils that have the same performance characteristics as virgin base oils
made from crude oil (Ott et al. 2010).
It is important to distinguish between re-rened base oils and recycled base oils
because recycled base oils ...
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ISBN: 9781466551497