dewaxing and deoiling

Increasingly efficient industrial plants require high-quality lubricants. Hard and soft waxes to be used for the production of food and cosmetics are in great demand.

Due to sophisticated processing technologies (e. g. catalytic cracking) refineries produce less by-products such as aromatics and paraffin/waxes. For this reason lube oil and paraffin producers look for new, more efficient technologies.

For optimum processing of feeds having different properties, EDL and Sulzer offer dewaxing and deoiling technologies with and without solvent. The selection of the optimal process guarantees the best possible product quality and the most attractive investment.

The tests show the following results:

• Determination of the equilibrium data
• Optimization and determination of process parameters (crystallization temperature, solvent ratio, temperature gradients, …)
• Determination of lube oil, soft wax and hard wax yield
• Analytical evaluation of the product quality