Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks (Hardcover)

Preface
Introduction
Base Stocks: General
Base Stocks from Crudes
Base Stock Properties
Feedstocks and Base Stocks: General Compositional Aspects
API Base Stock Classifications
Viscosity Grades for Industrial Lubricants
Society for Automotive Engineers Viscosity Classification for Engine Oils
API Engine Oil Classifications
Viscosity, Pour Points, Boiling Points, and Chemical Structure
Viscosity
Pour Points and Chemical Structure
Boiling Points and Structure
Development of the Viscosity Index Concept and Relationship to Hydrocarbon Composition
Viscosity Index
Viscosity Index and Composition
Compositional Methods
Introduction
n-d-M Method
Density and Viscosity Relationships: The Viscosity-Gravity Constant
Refractive Index and Density: Refractivity Intercept
Refractive Index and Reciprocal of Carbon Number
n-d-M Method: Development
NMR Spectroscopy: Background
¹H and ¹³C Applications
Wax Analyses
Some ¹³C NMR Applications
Oxidation Resistance of Base Stocks
Introduction
Studies of Solvent Refined Base Stocks
Impact of Aromatics and Sulfur Levels
Lubricant Performance, Composition, and the Trend to Hydrocracked Base Stocks
Conventional Base Stock Production: Solvent Refining, Solvent Dewaxing, and Finishing
Solvent Refining
Solvent Dewaxing
Finishing Solvent Refining Lube Base Stocks
Lubes Hydrocracking
Introduction
Group II Base Stock Production
Group III Base Stocks
Chemistry of Hydroprocessing
Introduction
Hydrodearomatization
HDA: Kinetic Aspects
HDA: Equilibria
HDA: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Formation
Hydrodesulfurization
Hydrodenitrification
Hydrocracking
Process Modeling
Urea Dewaxing and the BP Catalytic Process
Introduction
Wax Composition and Properties
Urea Dewaxing
Urea Dewaxing: Commercial Applications
The BP Catalytic Dewaxing Process
Dewaxing by Hydrocracking and Hydroisomerization
Dewaxing by Wax Cracking
Dewaxing by Hydroisomerization
Technical and Food Grade White Oils and Highly Refined Paraffins
White Oils
Refined Waxes
Base Stocks From Fischer-Tropsch Wax and The Gas-to-Liquids Process
The Fischer-Tropsch Process
Product Distributions
Base Stock Properties
GTL Processes
¹³C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications to Fischer-Tropsch Base Stocks