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REGENERATION OF USED LUBRICATING ENGINE OIL BY
SOLVENT EXTRACTION PROCESS
Aremu, Mujidat Omolara1, Araromi, Dauda Olurotimi2, Gbolahan, Olujide Olatunji3
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
LadokeAkintola University of Technology P.M.B. 4000,Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT: The increase in the use of motor vehicles has resulted to generation of large
quantity of used lubricating engine oil which is being disposed improperly, thereby leading to
environmental pollution. This work therefore investigated solvent extraction process for
recycling of used lubricating engine oil. Three solvents: 1-butanol, 2-propanol and mixtures
of 1-butanol-ethanol were considered. Each solvent was used to segregate impurities in the
form of sludge at different extraction factors considered.The performances of the solvents were
investigated by determination of Percent Sludge Removal and Percent Oil Loss. The
investigation revealed that 1-butanol produced the best extraction performance.
KEYWORDS: Extraction, Contact time, Oil loss, Recycling, Sludge
INTRODUCTION
Lubricating oils are viscous fluids used to facilitate relative motion of solid bodies by
minimising friction and wear between interacting surfaces. The largest application is to protect
the internal combustion engines in motor vehicles and powered equipment (Boyde, 2002).
Typical lubricating oil contains ninety percent base oil, most often petroleum fractions called
mineral oils and less than ten percent additives. The chemical breakdown of these additives
during use resulted to build up of halogenated hydrocarbons in the oil. Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) as well as other polycyclic compounds are generated and accumulate in
the oil (Wong and Wang, 2001) together with metals from wear and tear of the engine being
lubricated (Chung et al., 2007). These compounds gradually reduced its quality leading to
change in its physical and chemical properties and thereby deteriorated (Bridjanian, 2006).
These components are highly toxic upon released to the environment posing harmful effects to
aquatic lives and human beings (Kanokkantapongaet al., 2009). The improper disposal of used
lubricating oil pollutes environment to a great extent as each volume of it can pollute not less
than two hundred and fifty thousand volumes of water (Bridjanian, 2006). Proper management
of this hazardous material is therefore important in order to make it a valuable product by
greatly reducing the quantity being disposed improperly (Dang, 2006). Therefore re-refining
of used lubricating oil will eliminates the environmental threats posed and preserves crude oil
reserves (Duraniet al., 2010). Several techniques are available for the regeneration of used
lubricating oil, among which are chemical treatment (Rahmanet al., 2008; Hani and Alwedyan, 2012), acid activated process that is similar to acid-clay process with little
modification (Liu et al., 2005), physical treatment by distillation and thin film evaporation
(Brinkman et al., 1981) and solvent extraction (Katiyar and Husain 2010). However solvent
extraction treatment has rectified some of shortcomings likeacid sludge generation and its
disposal, lower yield and loss of oil in sludge that are created by other methods (Shakirullahet
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al., 2006). Nimiret al., (1997) and Durani et al., (2012) worked on used lubricating oil recycling
using 1-butanol, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and 2-propanol as different solvents. Durani et
al., 2010 researched on re-refining of used lubricating oil by solvent extraction using composite
solvents (2-propanol, 1-butanol and butanone) to investigate extraction temperature and
solvent to oil ratio. In this work, performance of solvent extraction process using both pure
solvent and composite solvent was evaluated for different solvent to oil ratio, temperature and
contact time.The performance of the process was measured through two dependent variables,
the Percent Sludge Removal (PSR) and Percent Oil Loss (POL) (Durani et al., 2010).
Experimental
The used lubricating engine oil (W) was collected from motor vehicle service stations.
Collected oils were mixed together to represent a complete spectrum of used lubricating engine
oil. Pre-treatment of the oil involved removal of solid particles by gravity settling. The oil was
heated at 140°C and atmospheric pressure for 1 hour to remove residual free and emulsified
water (Hani et al., 2010). Mixtures were prepared in different ratios from 1:1 to 6:1, by weight
of solvent (1-butanol, 2-propanol and mixture of 1-butanol and ethanol) and used lubricating
oil. Each system was homogenized at 300 rpm for 30 minutes and placed in water bath for 20
minutes to maintain a constant temperature at 35oC. It was allowed to stand for 24 hours.
Biphasic system, the extract phase and wet sludge (W1), was formed. The same procedure was
carried out for 30 minutes of contact time at 35oC. The procedure was repeated for 20 minutes
at 45oC, 30 minutes at 45oC, 20 minutes at 50oC, and 30 minutes at 50oC. The following
responses were considered for determining the effectiveness of the process
Percent Sludge Removal and Percent Oil Loss
The oil losses to the sludge was determine by addition of n-hexane to W1 followed by 2propanol. This resulted to formation of gel and the gel was left for 12 hours to settle under
gravity to allow for sludge formation (Nimiret al., 1997; Durani et al., 2010). The biphasic
system was separated by using vacuum distillation (Nimiret al., 1999; Hani et al., 2010; Durani
et al., 2010). The washed sludge was oven dried at 100oC for 15 minutes and cooled to room
temperature (Nimiret al., 1997; Durani et al., 2012). The PSR and POL, oil in sludge phase per
100 grams of used lubricating engine oil were calculated using the equation (1) and (2) below
respectively (Nimiret al.; Durani et al., 2012).
π‘Š
𝑃𝑆𝑅 = π‘Š2 × 100%
(1)
𝑃𝑂𝐿 =
π‘Š1 βˆ’π‘Š2
π‘Š
× 100% (2)
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Figure 1- 2 show the plot of Percent sludge removal (PSR) against solvent to oil ratio (SOR)
at 20 and 30 minutes of contact times, respectively using 1-butanol, 2-propanol; mixture of 1butanol and ethanol as solvents at extraction temperature 35, 45 and 50oC. As observed from
the Figures, PSR increased in an exponential decay manner with increase in SOR. This implies
that there is a limit to which solvent can be increased to improve sludge removal for a particular
temperature. This is in agreement with the result obtained by Nimiret al., (1997), and Duraniet
al., (2012). However, increase in temperature improved PSR as can be observed from the
Figures.
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1-Butanol 35oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 35oC
2-Propanol 45oC
1-Butanol 50oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 50oC
2-Propanol 35oC
1-Butanol 45oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 45oC
2-Propanol 50oC
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Percent Sludge Removal (%)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil ratio
Figure 1: Percent Sludge Removal curves for different Solvents used at different temperatures
and contact time of 20 minutes
1-Butanol 35oc
1-Butanol+Ethanol 35oC
2-Propanol 45oC
1-Butanol 50oc
1-Butanol+Ethanol 50oC
2-Propanol 35oC
1-Butanol 45oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 45oC
2-Propanol 50oC
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Percent Sludge Removal (%)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 2: Percent Sludge Removal curves for different Solvents used at different temperatures
and contact time of 30 minutes
Figure 3- 4 show the plots of percent oil loss (POL) against solvent to oil ratio. The Figures
show that POL decreased with the extraction temperature and there exit a limit to which
increase in SOR can improve reduction in POL. The Figures show that 1-butanol gave the least
POL at extraction temperature 45oC at all contact time follow by 2-propanol and mixture of 1butanol and ethanol. This is in close agreement with the result presented by Al-Zahraniet al.,
(2012).
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1-Butanol 35oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 35oC
2-Propanol 45oC
1-Butanol 50oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 50oC
2-Propanol 35oC
1-Butanol 45oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 45oC
2-Propanol 50oC
20
18
16
Percent Oil Loss (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 3: Percent Oil Loss curves for different Solvents used at different temperatures and
contact time of 20 minutes
1-Butanol 35oC
1-Butanol+Ethanol 35oc
2-Propanol 45oc
1-Butanol 50oc
1-Butanol+Ethanol 50oC
2-Propanol 35oc
1-Butanol 45oc
1-Butanol+Ethanol 45oc
2-Propanol 50oc
20
18
16
Percent Oil Loss
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 4: Percent Oil Loss curves for different Solvents used at different temperatures and
contact time of 30 minutes
Figures 5- 10 show the effect of solvents to oil ratio on the PSR at extraction temperatures
35oC, 45oC and 50oC for 20 and 30 minutes of contact time, respectively. In Figure 5 using 1butanol at extraction temperature 35oC, it was observed that there were quick rise in amount of
PSR at SOR between 1:1 and 1.9:1. The increase in amount of PSR was gradual at SOR in
between 2:1 and 2.8:1. At higher ratio the curves show a retreating effect instead of further
increase in PSR as SOR is increasing. Considering SOR 4:1 and 6:1 at temperature 50oC, 12.1
and 12.5 are the PSR respectively. The maximum PSR at 35oC was 10.7 and 11.5 at 50oC for
contact time of 20 minutes. In Figure 6, 1-butanol as solvent at extraction temperature 45oC
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and 50oC, the PSR were 11.4 and 11.9, respectively at the same SOR 6:1 and contact time of
30 minutes. Similar trends were observed for other solvents.
1-Butanol
35oC
50oC
45oC
14
Percent sludge Removal (%)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 5: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of 1-Butanol and ULEO at three
temperatures and contact time of 20 minutes
35oC
1-Butanol
45oC
50oc
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Percent Sludge Removal (%)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 6: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of 1-Butanol and ULEO at three
temperatures and at contact time 30 minutes
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2-Propanol
35oC
45oC
50oC
10
9
Percent Sludge removal (%)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 7: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of 2-Propanol and ULEO at three
temperatures and at contact time 20 minutes
35oC
2-Propanol
45oc
50oC
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Percent Sludge Removal (%)
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
Solvent
4:1
Oil
5:1
6:1
ratio
Figure 8: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of 2-Propanol and ULEO at three
temperatures and at contact time 30 minutes
1-Butanol+Ethanol
35oC
45oC
50oC
10
9
Percent sludge Removal (%)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 9: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of mixture of 1-Butanol, ethanol and
ULEO at three temperatures and at contact time 20 minutes
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1-Butanol+Ethanol
35oc
45oc
50oC
10
9
Percent Sludgr Removal (%)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solve nt Oil Ra tio
Figure 10: Percent Sludge Removal curves for a system of mixture of 1-Butanol, ethanol and
ULEO at three temperatures and at contact time 30 minutes
Figures 11 - 16 are plots of the effect of SOR on POL at extraction temperature 35oC,45oC and
50oC for 20 and 30 minutes of contact times, respectively. The Figures shows that there were
decrease in POL despite increase in solvent to oil ratio. It is shown in the Figures that there
was a rapid reduction in POL amount at SOR between 1:1 and 2:1. The POL continued to drop
between SOR 2:1 and 2.8:1. However, at higher SOR, a retreating effect was observed. This
shows that a limit there exist beyond which improvement in decrease in POL cannot be
achieved with increase in SOR. These sections revealed the region to obtain the minimum oil
losses in the sludge at a specified extraction temperature (Nimiret al., 1997). Figure 11 shows
that at extraction temperature 30oC and 50oC; SOR (2:1), the POL were 13.9 and 14.1 for 20
minutes of contact time respectively. At extraction temperature 45oC and 50oC; SOR (6:1), the
POL were 10.4 and 10.9, respectively for the same contact time. Similar trends were observed
from other Figures for POL. Other solvents gave similar trends for both PSR and POL. These
results are in close agreement with the PSR and POL result reported by Duraniet al., (2012)
andAl-Zahrani, et al., (2012).
It was observed that extraction temperature has slight effect on both PSR and POL. Increase in
extraction temperature and SOR resulted to increase in PSR but a decrease in POL. There is
need to increase PSR and decrease POL, therefore varying temperature has slight effect on
improving the performance of the process since similar effects were displayed at specified
temperature.
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1-Butanol
35oC
45oC
50oc
18
16
Percent oil Loss (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 11: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of 1-Butanol and ULEO at three temperatures
and at contact time of 20 minutes
35oC
1-Butanol
45oC
50oC
18
16
Percent Oil Loss (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 12: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of 1-Butanol and ULEO at three temperatures
and at contact time of 30 minutes
35oC
2-Propanol
45oC
50oc
16
14
Percent Oil Loss (%)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 13: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of 2-Propanol and ULEO at three temperatures
and at contact time of 20 minutes
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2-Propanol
35oC
45oc
50oC
18
16
Percent Sludge Removal (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil ratio
Figure 14: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of 2-Propanol and ULEO at three temperatures
and at contact time of 30 minutes
1-Butanol+Ethanol
35oC
45oC
50oC
20
18
16
Percent Oil Loss (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Loss
Figure 15: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of mixture of 1-Butanol, ethanol and ULEO at
three temperatures and at contact time of 20 minutes
1-Butanol+Ethanol
35oc
45oc
50oC
20
18
16
Percent Oil Loss (%)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solvent Oil Ratio
Figure 16: Percent Oil Loss curves for a system of mixture of 1-Butanol, ethanol and ULEO at
three temperatures and at contact time of 30 minutes
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The Figures 11 and 12 that show the plot of effect of SOR on PSR at contact time 20 and 30
minutes for 1-butanol show the effect of contact time on PSR and POL. Figure 11 shows that
at 2:1 and extraction temperature 35oC, 7 and 7.4 were the PSR for contact time of 20 and 30
minutes, respectively. Figure 12 shows that when the temperature was 45oC at the same ratio,
7.4 and 7.7 were respectively the PSR at contact time 20 and 30 minutes. At temperature 35oC
in Figure 11, the maximum PSR was 10.7 at contact time of 20 minutes and 11.2 at contact
time of 30 minutes for Figure 12. From Figure 11, at 35oC; SOR (3:1) the POL was 13.4 at
contact time 20 minutes while from Figure 12 at the same temperature and ratio, 13.3 was the
POL at contact time 30 minutes. In order to increase the performance of the extraction process,
there is a need to increase the PSR and reduce the POL. It is observed that contact time has
very slight effect on both PSR and POL. As a result of this varying the contact time will not
help much in improving the performance of the process as its effect is similar on both PSR and
POL. Other solvents gave similar trends for both PSR and POL.
The determination of the region that can give the optimum sludge removal is the target of this
study. The Critical Clarifying Ratio (CCR) does not necessarily correspond to maximum PSR
since an increase in SOR still yield an increase in PSR and decrease in POL (Nimiret al., 1997).
The value of CCR in Table 4.7 shows that the CCR for 1-butanol is 2.65:1 at extraction
temperature 50oC; 30 minutes contact time, and PSR 12.4. The CCR for using 2-propanol and
mixture of 1-butanol and ethanol as solvent occur at the same extraction temperature and
contact time with 1-butanol, but at SOR 3.19:1 and 3.25:1, respectively. The PSR are 9.8 and
9.4 respectively. The results are in close agreement with results presented by Nimiret al.,
(1997) and Duraniet al., (2012).
1-Butanol
50oC
10
9
Percent Sludge Removal (%)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1:1
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
6:1
Solve nt Oil Ra tio
Figure 17: Percent Sludge Removal Curve for a System of 1-Butanol; ULEO at 50oC; contact
time 30 minutes and the geometrical method applied for determination of Critical Clarifying
Ratio (CCR)
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Table 4.7: Critical clarifying ratio from
temperature and contact time
Time
Solvent
20 minutes
1-Butanol
20 minutes
1-Butanol
20 minutes
1-Butanol
30 minutes
1-Butanol
30 minutes
1-Butanol
30 minutes
1-Butanol
20 minutes
2-Propanol
20 minutes
2-Propanol
20 minutes
2-Propanol
30 minutes
2-Propanol
30 minutes
2-Propanol
30 minutes
2-propanol
20 minutes
1-But+ Etha
20 minutes
1-But+ Etha
20 minutes
1-But+ Etha
30 minutes
1-But + Etha
30 minutes
1-But + Etha
30 minutes
1-But + Etha
the percent sludge removal curves with respect to
Temperature
35oC
35oC
45oC
45oC
50oC
50oC
35oC
35oC
45oC
45oC
50oC
50oC
35oC
35oC
45oC
45oC
50oC
50oC
C.C.R
3.34:1
2.9
3.1
3.2
2.74
2.65
2.51
2.75
2.82
2.68
2.85
3.19
2.58
2.95
3.81
3.4
2.82
3.25
P.S.R
10.8
11.67
10.82
11.76
10.9
12.4
8.2
8.6
8.6
9.2
8.9
9.8
8.8
9.3
8.7
9.1
8.35
9.4
CONCLUSION
This study was carried out to determine the efficient solvent extraction parameters that is,
solvent to oil ratio, solvent type, extraction temperature and contact time based on experimental
results (PSR and POL). The following are the conclusion of this study: All the solvents used
effectively removed contaminants from used lubricating engine oil. The PSR increases slightly
with increase in contact time. This study revealed that the effect of contact time is not too
significant in the PSR and the optimum PSR was obtained at solvent to oil ratio 3:1. The
investigation revealed that the solvent 1-butanol produce the best extraction performance with
respect to sludge removal follow by 2-propanol.
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