Re: [AMC-list] recycled oil

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't watch much TV except a couple of shows on Hulu.   I have not seen the 
recycled oil comercials but I worked for the company which owned and operated 
the only oil
re-refinery west of the Mississippi River.   I was in environmental management 
and I was intimately familiar with the process.  True recycled oil has been 
re-refined, meaning that
it has be vacuum distilled at high temperature and the distillate has been 
subjected to the hydroforming process which uses a catalyst to replace harmful 
elements like sulfur on the 

hydrocarbon molecule.   The sulfur is then extracted and the outlet from the 
process is a clear (We called it water white.) liquid which resembled mineral 
oil you can buy
at the pharmacy.   Most of  our product was sold to folks like WD-40 (and also 
used in 3in1 Oil, owned by the same company) and to Texaco and other oil 
companies for use
in packaged greases.    Oil companies were reluctant at that time to use it in 
blended motor oil because they felt the "recycled" connotation would result in 
warranty issues only 

because of the perception that it was not as good as virgin oil.  Union Oil 
company, for a time in the 1980s did blend our product into recycled Union 76 
motor oil which was clearly
labelled recycled , but it did not sell well or the profit margin wasn't 
sufficient, so it was discontinued.

It is interesting that we our feedstock was used oill, as drained, which would 
include increasig amounts of synthetic oil as use of synthtetics increased.  Our 
engineers felt that 

the synthetics only improved the quality of our products.

Recycled oil got a bad reputation in the past because most recyclers only heated 
the oil to extract the moisture and volatiles like gasoline then filtered it 
before sale.  The oil still contained most of the harmful
acids and components likely to result in acids. 

Joe Fulton



----- Original Message ----
From: Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, November 5, 2011 7:16:21 AM
Subject: [AMC-list] recycled oil

Lately I've been seeing commercials about the quality of using oil that is 
either entirely recycled oil or 50/50 blends.

Anyone have any insider information on this subject?

Are we getting hornswoggled again?

Armand

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