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

Some are predominantly naphthenes so yield a lubricating oil that is more sensitive to temperature changes than the paraffin-base crudes. €�The transition is expected to occur by mid 2011.” The plant produces base oil, process oils and wax. 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. 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. €�Lately these refiners have decided to get out of production of unrefined waxes,” said Kumar, explaining that more petroleum companies are taking their by-product waxes and further refining them into lubricating oil. While some oil producers blend many individual components to make their motor oils, most oils are made by simply blending three fluids; a DI package, a VI improver, and a base oil. These fluids, however, are the complex . Mixed-Base Crude Oils: The "gray area" between the two types above. Modern processing techniques do a pretty good job of removing these undesirable components, good enough for well over 90% of the world's lubricant applications, but they cannot remove all of the bad actors. The oil portion of the cylinder stock is further processed to remove the resins. 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. €�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.