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

I remember when I got into cycling 20+ years ago and working at a shop hearing about pro mechanics that would go through a rather lengthy process to lube the chains with paraffin wax. In the refining process, the crude oil is converted into transportation fuels—gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel—and other petroleum products, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), heating fuel, lubricating oil, wax, and asphalt. I've tried many different oils, waxes, etc., but none is as good as what is on the chain when the box is opened. With VeloLab's findings on the efficacy of paraffin wax for lubing chains, readers are left with questions on how to lube their drivetrains. 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. 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. Mixed-Base Crude Oils: The "gray area" between the two types above. The oil portion of the cylinder stock is further processed to remove the resins. High-gravity crude oils contain more of the lighter The most common separation process is distillation, where the components of the crude are separated into several streams based on their boiling temperature. 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. Some are predominantly naphthenes so yield a lubricating oil that is more sensitive to temperature changes than the paraffin-base crudes.