RECOVERY OF WASTE LUBE OIL VIA SAFETY KLEEN TECHNOLOGY

Supervised By: Dr. Saima Yasin

PROJECT BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
Management of waste oils is a growing concern particularly in industrial and
urban areas. Generation of waste oils is closely linked with increase in
population of automobiles and industries. When additives and foreign
substances, such as metal powder, chips and other particles, are mixed with
lubricating oil, aging, degrading and failure will likely occur, leading to
mechanical fault and degraded performance. In such cases, the oil is replaced
to improve the performance. The used, spent or waste oils should be collected
and recycled not only to prevent the environment pollution but also to SELECTED EQUIPMENT FOR DESIGN
preserve natural resources.
1. Reactor 2. Vacuum Distillation Column 3. Thin Film Evaporator
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS
 Eliminate the import of finished lube oil products that is 11 % of the total
consumption 1. REACTOR
 Environmental impact assessment of the selected process to demonstrate its Reactor specification
less adverse effect on the environment
Type Trickle-Bed Reactor Function Hydrodesufurza
CAPACITY SELECTION tion of waste oil
Volume 9.394 m3 Height 8.76m
Inside Diameter 1.168 m Wall Thickness (m) 88mm
Head type Torispherical No. of Catalyst Beds 2
Pressure Drop 104.55 kPa Catalyst Ni-W
No. of Gas Quenches 1 Material SS-316
2. VACUUM DISTILLATION COLUMN

PFD OF THE SELECTED PROCESS

Type 3. THIN FILM EVAPORATOR

Long Tube Vertical Natural Circulation Falling Film

Function To vaporize lube oil from vacuum distillation column

Operating Pressure 0.2 kPa

Operating Temperature 320℃

Heat Load 107.28 kW

Heat Transfer Area 16 m2

Materials of Construction 316 SS

TUBE DESIGN SHELL DESIGN

Fluid Handled Used Lube Oil Fluid Handled Paratherm

Mass Flow Rate 876 kg/hr Mass Flow Rate 4784 kg/hr

Inside Diameter 0.021 m Shell Diameter 0.254 m

No. of Tubes 28 Baffle Spacing 0.127 m

Inside coefficient 149 W/m2 K Film coefficient 278 W/m2 K

Overall Material Balance CONCLUSION

 Along with the conservation of mass the process recover almost 60 % of the waste lube oil and
about 25% of kerosene oil and 15% Asphalts and recover and also recover 94.75 % of solvent
used which shows an economical efficient process.
 Consume less energy as compared to its extraction from the crude oil. Light fuel, gas oil
and asphalt blending / improving material are valuable by-products of this re-refining
method that pay a significant role in energy conservation
 Almost no harmful or useless by-product hydrocarbon is produced via this method that
can affect the environment. This method also limits the negative effects of the practice of
uncontrolled burning of waste

REFERENCES
1. Motshumi J. Diphare, M.Tsietsi J. Pilusa and Mansoor Mollagee, A Comparison of Waste Lubricating Oil
2. White, Lloyd S., Albert R. Nitsch. "Solvent recovery from lube oil filtrates with a polyimide membrane."
Journal of Membrane Science 179.1-2 (2000)
3. Awaja, Firas, and Dumitru Pavel. Design aspects of used lubricating oil re-refining. Elsevier, 2006.
Overall Energy Balance 4. Wahab, S.A., Rerefining of Used Lube Oil. 2013.
Input Streams Stream Name Enthalpy of Pressure Energy Heat Energy Mass flow Rate 5. Mekonnen, H.A., Recycling of Used Lubricating Oil Using Acid-Clay Treatment Process.
Number formation (KJ/Kg) (KJ/Kg) (kg/h)
(KJ/Kg) GROUP MEMBERS
2 Waste Lube Oil -2345.3 0.723404 68.4 1000
5
20
Triplex Solvent
Hydrogen gas
-912.3
-286
0.397515
5.3416
15.695
929.76
4000
7.4529
University of Engineering and Technology Lahore (City Campus)
Output Streams Stream Name Enthalpy of Pressure Energy Heat Energy Mass flow Rate Hammad Shakeel Chemical, Polymer and Composite
Number formation (KJ/Kg) (KJ/Kg) (kg/h)
(KJ/Kg)
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3 Water -285.8 0.2 155.4 21 Mukaram Khan
13 Gasoline -269.1 0.25869 22.2 271.376
19 Asphaltic Residue -2049.3 0.113080 59.8 194.63
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23 Re-refined Lube oil -1134 0.5 63.3 625.65 M. Zubair Yameen
21 Sour gas -642.7 130.23 91.91 62.99
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