RECYCLING OF USED LUBRICATING OIL
ABSTRACT
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
- Brief History of petroleum in Nigeria 3
- Waste Lubricating Oil Dumping 4
- Objective 5
- Statement of problem 5
- Hypothesis 7
- Scope of work 8
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review 8
2.1 Composition of lubricating oil 8
- Performance characteristics of lubricating oil 9
- Lubricating oil in service 12
2.4 General Characteristics of lubricating oil 15
CHAPTER THREE
Experimental work 23
3.1 Materials and method 23
- Quality Test 29
CHAPTER FOUR
Results and Discursions 33
4.1 Guideline for Quality Acceptance 33
- Results 34
- Discussions 40
4.4 Comparison of the two methods 45
CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion and recommendations 47
5.1 Conclusion 47
- Recommendation 48
References 50
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
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.