Using Vacuum Distillation Technique to Treat Waste Lubricating Oil and Evaluation its Efficiency by Chromatographic Methods

Authors

  • Muna Mahmood Khudhair Ministry of Science and Technology, Directorate of Materials Research, Petroleum and Petrochemical Research Centre, Baghdad-Iraq.
  • Tagreed Mahdi Hameed Ministry of Science and Technology, Directorate of Materials Research, Petroleum and Petrochemical Research Centre, Baghdad-Iraq.
  • Hader Abid Alameer Ministry of Science and Technology, Directorate of Materials Research, Petroleum and Petrochemical Research Centre, Baghdad-Iraq.

Keywords:

Waste Lubricating Oil Treatment, Gas Chromatography Analysis, Vacuum Distillation

Abstract

Today the world cares about recycles of industrial wastes in order to reduce the pollution in the environment and economic purposes. Waste lubricating oil is one of these residues that cause water, air and soil pollution when disposed of without treatment. In this work, vacuum distillation technique was applied to purify waste lubricating oil after primary treatments such as separation of water and filtration. Gas chromatography analysis was used to study the changes in chemical
structures of the hydrocarbon fractions of treated lubricating oil and comparison them with those in fresh oil. The results showed that, the C10-C15 hydrocarbon fraction is increased and the C20-C25 is decreased for all type of hydrocarbon chemical structure after use of the lubricating oil. On the other hand, the comparison of hydrocarbon fraction of waste lubricating oil and gas oil showed that, there is close similarity between them according to the results of gas chromatography analysis.

 

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Published

2017-06-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017): June

Section

Articles

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Using Vacuum Distillation Technique to Treat Waste Lubricating Oil and Evaluation Its Efficiency by Chromatographic Methods. ANJS 2017, 20 (2), 17-24.