On 3/17/2012 9:56 AM, max_stemple wrote:
> what is synthetic oil made from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil
In any case, you have to have a base oil to start with in blending motor
oil. Across the street from my house is the Chevron Richmond Refinery.
Back when I was working there we began a small pilot plant to make base
oil at Chevron Research. This was then scaled up and called RLOP,
Richmond Lube Oil Project which produced a small amount of base oil
every day it ran. I did some environmental testing on that plant. The
plant finally got lined out and parameters solidified and the RLOP was
scaled up to a full sized plant.
Before I retired, the Chevron Lube oil plant was making the best base
oil in the USA. The product was sold to others who used it for their
oil offerings too. Can't tell you who buys it......... At the time I
retired, there were only a handful of base oil producers in the USA.
JerryK
Richmond, CA
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