In almost all human activities especially in industrial lubricating oil is required. A large quantity of used lubricating oil is wasted in milling of liters yearly. Spent lubricating oil is recovered using methods such as Acid treatment and activated charcoal/clay method. The results obtained show that the recovered lubricating oil compared favorably with the standard. There will be a reduction or complete elimination of environment Pollution due to the present method of caroler’s disposal of spent oil is very clad. The level of lubricating oil in the market will not only be improved upon also will be sustained and easily available to the consumer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction 1
1.1 Aim 1
1.2 Origin of petroleum 2
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review 8
2.1 Composition of lubricating oil 8
2.4 General Characteristics of lubricating oil 15
CHAPTER THREE
Experimental work 23
3.1 Materials and method 23
CHAPTER FOUR
Results and Discursions 33
4.1 Guideline for Quality Acceptance 33
4.4 Comparison of the two methods 45
CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion and recommendations 47
5.1 Conclusion 47
References 50
CHAPTER ONE
Lubricants are unique among the petroleum products in the market especially if the product is of high or improved quality which guarantees a longer period of usage and a relative volume of sales.
It is good to recycle the used lubricating oil in order to prevent health harzard of dumping used lubricating oil, because of small percentage of lubricating oil gotten from petroleum products, also because of the high rank of lubrications as an energy conservation measure. The idea of recycling the used lubricants was first practiced To an extent in 1930s during scarcity of adequate supplies of crude oil Which encourage the reuse of all types of materials including the lubricating oil.
1.1 Aim
The title of this project Recycling of used lubricating oil clearly speaks for itself, it simply means a process where by used lubricating Oil can be brought back to its original form for further use. Also a process where by the quality of used lubricating oil can be up graded.
1.2 ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM
Petroleum is another name for crude or mineral oil, a thick dark Vicious liquid used to make a wide rang of liquid and gas fuels. Petroleum is a fossil fuel formed millions of years ago from decayed dead plants and animals that lived in some types of rocks where oil Is often found. Over 200 different hydrocarbons can be identified in a sample of crude petroleum. Owing to the great thickness of the sediment high pressure built up which probably in conjunction with biochemical activity led to the formation of crude oil although detailed mechanism isObscure, accumulation of crude oil believed to involve three steps
(i) Generation of oil: Oil is generated in sedimentary basin which
Have intermittent been covered with seawater or offshore basin on a continental area.
(ii) Primary Migration: The oil from source to reservoir rock.
(iii) Secondary Migration: The redistribution of oil within the reservoir rock.
1.3 BRIEF HISORY OF PETROLEUM IN NIGERIA
Nigeria is blessed with a lot of natural resources of which include clude oil. Oil exploration kicked off and took shape in Nigeria in 1908 when a German company the Nigeria Bitumen Corporation (NBC) began successful exploration in the Araromi area of the present Ondo state.
The pioneering effect however terminated owing to the outbreak of the first world war in the year 1914 with the up roar and catastrophe however oil exploration resumed in Nigeria in 1937 and shell D” Arey (the forerunner of the present shell Development company (SPDC) of Nigeria was awarded the sole concessionary, right covering the whole territory of Nigeria. The activities were again paused by the Second World War.
1.4 WASTE LUBRICATING OIL DUMPING AND ENVIROMENT.
The activities of the oil industry are aimed primarily at the production of fuel into a lubricants as by products also. Many nations are now addre
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