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

Slide13: Liquid lubricants Lanolin (wool grease, natural water repellant) Water Mineral oils Vegetable (natural oil) Synthetic oils Others Note: although generally lubricants are based on one type of base oil or another, it is quite possible to use mixtures of the base oils to meet performance requirements. Mineral based - Petroleum fractions. Paraffinic hydrocarbons are the best lubricants. Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing. In other words the mineral oil production process is physical cleaning and the end product is so-called paraffinic base oil. Furthermore, as many unwanted substances as possible are removed in the process, such as sulphur, aromatic hydrocarbons, paraffin wax, etc. Animal oils - Lard oil, Tallow oil, Whale oil. Based on lubricant Physical State. The distillation process in the refinery separates the hydrocarbons contained in the crude into cuts based on the molecule size. Vegetable oil - Castor oil, Palm oil, Coconut oil. Can be manufactured from base oil or slax wax from dewaxing process. Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing book download Download Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing by Avilino Sequeira, Jr. The additives lower the pour point either by forming a thin coating over wax and prevent it from agglomerisation or co precipitate along with wax , thus reducing the freezing point. SAE viscosity index >120 - Manufactured by special processes such as isohydromerization.