Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing Avilino Sequeira
Publisher: CRC Press

Base oils, unlike essential oils, don't contain a concentrated aroma but most of them have a mild distinctive smell and don't evaporate. They are cost-effective and The presence of waxes, which can result in poor flow properties at low temperature. Those are a combination of a carrier oil, often sunflower, and plant material. If you like you can make them yourself. Most people know the key driver of the production for lubricants are Base Oils. Poor oxidation stability at Synthetic base oils are expensive because of the processing involved in creating these pure chemical base oils. Lubricants have been around since ancient times. The initial processing was limited to separation by boiling point. The Petroleum-based Lubricants business started in mid 1800′s. Furthermore, as many unwanted substances as possible are removed in the process, such as sulphur, aromatic hydrocarbons, paraffin wax, etc. Cold-pressing is the best process to produce carrier oils of high quality. Acceptability, lubrication, absorption and health benefits. When choosing synthetic oil over regular mineral oil it's worth remembering that mineral oils have been around for a long time and function very well as lubricants in most industrial applications.