Rufouz Hitek

Engineers Pvt. Ltd.

LUBE OIL RE-REFINING

TECHNOLOGY

Tomorrow's technology, engineered today…….

 ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

• We should take some step to protect environment while

studying the process we concentrated on mainly two
things.

What is refining industry discharging?

How is it discharged?
 ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION…..

 Hazardous wastes include oily sludge, slop oil emulsion solids, leads
tank bottom corrosion solids

 45000 Metric ton/Month – Huge amount of sludge deposited on

earth through re-refining process country like Saudi Arabia

 Refineries generate solid wastes and sludges ranging from 3 to 5 kg

per ton of crude processed, 80% of this sludge may be considered
hazardous because or the presence of toxic organics and heavy
metals.
 STEP TOWARDS PRESERVING THE EARTH….

• We have carried out experiments & proposed environmental

friendly Re-refining Process.
• Re-refining of used lube oil is an economically attractive recycling
method in terms of resources conservation and environment
protection. It allows processing of hazardous material and
effective way to recover an high quality base oil product.
• This resulting strong economic incentive for re-refining considering
lube oil price. Re-refining can produce base oils.
OVERVIEW

• Used lube oil is generally a mixture of different types and grades of used
lube oils, coming from motor crank cases and industry users.

• Used Oil Characteristics

Components Wt. %
Water and Light Ends 5-10
Gas Oil 6-8
Lube Oil Fraction 70
Residue 15-17
USED OIL CYCLE
ADVANTAGES OF USED OIL RE-REFINING

Environment Protection

Low Energy Consumption

High Quality of product

FACTOR TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE RE-
REFINING PROCESS
• Increased use of additive packages in the formulation of finished
lube oil and by consequence higher level of contaminants in the
used oil.

• Increased amount of thermal degradation products due to longer

mileage of the lubricants.

• Pollution problems related to the disposal of acid sludge and

spent clay from the traditional acid/clay re-refining
HITEK USED OIL RE-REFINING

• Re-refining is a profitable opportunity since lube oil can be re-

refined as many times as you like, therefore becoming a very
attractive business opportunity while safeguarding the
environment.
• Among the available today processes, Hitek Re-refining
Process offers a low energy high yield operation, high quality
products and absence of noxious wastes or by products.
 RE-REFINING PROCESS UNIT OPERATIONS

1 • Pretreatment & Dehydration

II • Gas Oil Removal/Diesel stripping
III • Vacuum Distillation
IV • Solvent Extraction
PRETREATMENT & DEHYDRATION

• In this process used oil is partly vaporized at atmospheric pressure to

remove water, gasoline, light contaminants like solvents, glycols,
organic.
• Water and light components are condensed and recovered.
• To produce lubricating oils having the required specification for
initial volatility.
• To remove unstable additives and degradation products by hot
processing, thus preventing their penetration into the lube oil
distillate.
PRETREATMENT & DEHYDRATION

• Waste lube oil from storage is pumped by the feed pump

through the feed filters, then preheated by hot oil and mixed
with chemical additive for pre-treatment.
• The mixture is sent to the flash drum, where light hydrocarbons
and water are eliminated by flash.
• Vapor from flash drum overhead contains mainly water and
gasoline and is routed to the off gas system and used as fuel
gas for the hot oil heater.
GAS OIL REMOVAL/DIESEL STRIPPING

• Gasoil is removed from the waste lube oil in the gasoil stripper
• This is for the correction of oil flash point and recovery of gasoil
fraction.
• Gasoil is obtained as overhead and then sent to storage.
• Part of the gasoil is returned to the stripper as reflux.
• Stripped oil from the bottom is sent to the vacuum distillation
section.
 VACUUM DISTILLATION

• Lube oil from gas oil stripper is sent to vacuum distillation to recover
base oil fraction from "heavier than "contaminants.
• Vacuum distillation is carried out under high vacuum conditions, high
temperature and by distillation column.
• To recover lube oil from heavy residue and separate lube oil cuts.
• In order to obtain maximum lube oil recovery, distillation temperature is
extremely high and pressure is maintained at very low value.
 VACUUM DISTILLATION

• The bottom product of column is the asphaltic residue, which is

pumped to storage.
• To recover lube oil from heavy residue and separate lube oil cuts.
• Process sour water and light hydrocarbons from vacuum systems are
collected and sent to waste water treatment.
 SOLVENT EXTRACTION

• The final step of the process, which improves base oil quality, is the
Finishing.
• Lube extraction is carried out to remove poly aromatic hydrocarbons from
the feed stocks to improve Viscosity Index, Color, Oxidation Stability
through the action of NMP solvent.
• Oil and extract stripping, to allow recovery of the last fractions of NMP from
both the oils and extract.
• Solvent Purification by Flash and Dehydration of solvent through distillation.
HITEK EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY…

Liquid Phase Raffinate

Heavy Phase Solvent

EXTRACTOR
Liquid Phase Feed

Aromatic Extract
OUR STUDY FOR EFFICIENT PROCESS…
PROPERTIES NMP FURFURAL PHENOL
Density, @ 15 °C 1.03 1.16 1.07
Boiling Point, °C 204 162 182
Freezing Point, °C -24 -39 +40
Relative Cost 1.5 1.0 0.36
S/F Ratio Very Low Moderate Low
Solubility in Water Complete Partial Partial
Selectivity Very Good Excellent Good
Solvent Power Excellent Good Very Good
Stability Excellent Good Very Good
Extraction Temperature Excellent Highest Intermediate

Refined OilYield High High Low

 ADVANTAGES OF NMP EXTRACTION

• Superseding phenol- furfural lube refining

• High solvent power, lower solvent-to-feed ratio required
• Low temperature & energy efficient operation.
• Use of water gives higher raffinate yields
• Quick phase separation and fast settling lead to increased
throughput and smaller new units for a given size of the plant
• Lower operating cost
• High “ON STREAM” factor
FLOW SCHEMES

Water & Light Ends

Gas Oil

Residue
 ADVANTAGES OF HITEK RE-REFINING PROCESS

• High flexibility towards feed stock quality and composition.

• High process yield.
• The lube oil recovery is more than 95%.
• High separation selectivity, removal of contaminants and
production of high quality base oils
• Low energy and low utility consumption.
 ADVANTAGES OF HITEK RE-REFINING PROCESS

• High on stream efficiency without corrosion, fouling, coking.

• Environment safe guarding operation.
• Management of all odorous compound s to eliminate malodorous
and toxic emissions.
• Capital investment and operating cost highly competitive.
 WIDE SPECTRUM OF OUR ACTIVITIES

• Engineering – Basic & Detailed Engineering of Plant

• Modular Construction & skid mounted design of plant

• Appropriate electrical control with SCADA

• Instrument & other procurement

• Successful erection & commissioning of the plant.

 BASIC ENGINEERING DETAIL ENGINEERING PIPING & 3D MODELLING

CONTROL SYSTEM (SCADA) ERECTION OF PLANT SUCESSFUL COMMISIONING

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