I thought the real answer is "the lube oil is the most valuable part"
Can we do more with used oil?
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Yeah I would run at least 10% used oil in Detroit's before they would burn and leak oil faster than it would accumulate in the crank case. Then it was just a matter of cutting back the oil to maintain the right level.
Back in the day they spread it on the dirt roads to keep down the dust. Ah, those were the days!
I will say no, I can remember there was an oil here that was talked about 4 awhile, that was made from recycled oil, and via a VOA it looked terrible. The oil name was maybe Next Gen or something.
The problem with that is draining it and keeping it uncontaminated.
It wasn't that hard when I did it before. Wipe down drain pan, drain oil, pour into empty oil jug from previous change using a clean funnel. I even once tried using a paper filter just to see what it would catch, but nothing of significance was filtered out.
Key word here is "using it in a beater". If you can't hurt it, you can't hurt it. Its an eco friendly action too.
Key word here is "using it in a beater". If you can't hurt it, you can't hurt it. Its an eco friendly action too.
Several schemes to re-refine used PMCO. The most promising was BP feeding into a Coker along with the normal Coker feed. After inspection during the next turnaround it was found processing the used PMCO took significant equipment life, far more so than the normal Coker feed.
The additives that transform a base oil into a finished lubricant poses real challenge to re-refine used motor oil.
Safety Kleen has several used oil re-refineries around the USA. Their approach uses some equipment not used in refineries that process crude oil, a thin film evaporator in addition to equipment used in a crude oil refinery (distillation towers, a hydrotreating reactor) and produces three grades of base oils.
This web page has more details on their processes, including recycling used motor oil filters. I take my used oil and oil filters to O'Reilly. O'Reilly is the only collecter of used oil that also accept used oil filters for recycling in my are.
https://www.safety-kleen.com/services
This video has a simplified overview of how their oil re-refing process is configured.
The additives that transform a base oil into a finished lubricant poses real challenge to re-refine used motor oil.
Safety Kleen has several used oil re-refineries around the USA. Their approach uses some equipment not used in refineries that process crude oil, a thin film evaporator in addition to equipment used in a crude oil refinery (distillation towers, a hydrotreating reactor) and produces three grades of base oils.
This web page has more details on their processes, including recycling used motor oil filters. I take my used oil and oil filters to O'Reilly. O'Reilly is the only collecter of used oil that also accept used oil filters for recycling in my are.
https://www.safety-kleen.com/services
This video has a simplified overview of how their oil re-refing process is configured.
I burn up a lot of my used oil to help my cutting/trimming burn pile get going good. Kind of analogous to the waste oil heaters many use for heating in winter.
The US government still appears to be buying that re-refined motor oil.
For oil filters I burn them and recycle what doesn't burn.
Yes, that preference for government agencies to preferentially use re-refined motor oils has been true for some time.
A few years back Valvoline offered at retail motor oil formulated from re-refined base oil products called Next-gen. This only lasted a short time in the retail space, likely because it was more highly priced than comparable Valvoline products formulated with base oil from crude oil.
Without the government agencies preferentially using re-refined motor oil, it would be a small niche market that Valvoline found too little demand in the retail market to be sustainable.
Safety Kleen oils have served my works vehicles well.
I’m not sure who told you that about Valvoline. But you’re not correct about any of it.
Also, the re-refined base oil business is booming. There are tons of products out there that use re-refined base oils.
Source: Kinda used to own the re-refinery that Valvoline bought its base oil from. I even hauled it to them, on my trucks. And they even used my PCMO formulations.
Good Korning sir. I believe you mentioned that natural gas prices trend with used oil or vice cersa. Do they get other gases like propane, benzine etc out of used oil?
Yeah it didn't last very long and I found it odd that it wasn't the cheapest oil on the shelf.
I have maybe 2 5quarts of their nextgen maxlife 10w30. Got it with mail in rebate
They still make it?
Exactly, They now have a process where they can burn whole scrap tires without the need for shredding. At 1800 degrees F there is not going to be anything left.
https://www.waste360.com/fleet-tech...hnology-burns-whole-tires-for-cement-industry
Does the fire stink of burned oil?
Many folks use 5,000 miles as an OCI. That used oil is still good for at least another 5,000 miles in a beater.
No, I got it when it came out at Autozone and advance Auto
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