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Can motor oil be recycled—and how?
Yes, oil can be recycled.

In general, you take crude oil and refine it to make a lubricant. This is called base lube stock. Then you have to take that base lube stock and blend it with additives in order to put it into a passenger car. That's what gives it color actually. You're adding an anti-foaming additive, a dispersant and a detergent.
When you put the oil into the engine, it is essentially degraded by heating it, and is also oxidized. As all these additives start to break down, the engine starts to wear more. That puts some heavy metals into the oil. The anti-foaming additive breaks down and you start to get water mixing with the oil and making sludge. The same breakdown happens with the dispersant and the detergent. That's the reason they recommend to change it every X number of miles because of the thermal degradation and oxidation. Oil only has a certain life span.
We clean that used oil by using pretty conventional refinery technologies. One of them is vacuum distillation, which dewaters the oil. Used motor oil comes with somewhere between 5 and 7 percent water in it. The first thing you have to do is get the water out of it. Second separates out all the contaminants and additives that are put into passenger car motor oils. Then after that, we go through a hydrotreating process that gets up to 700 degrees Fahrenheit and 1,100 [pounds per square inch]. That infuses hydrogen back into the hydrocarbon molecules and makes it a very high quality re-refined oil.
If you're thinking of it in a very simple way, we're filtering the used oil with very sophisticated technologies and processes.
 
Used motor oil is still a major pollutant of soil and water in the world. used motor oil  contaminates soil, and may contaminate wells. USED MOTOR OIL FROM A SINGLE OIL CHANGE CAN RUIN A MILLION GALLONS OF FRESH WATER. Used motor oil is insoluble, persistent and can contain toxic chemicals and heavy metals. It's slow to degrade. Used motor oil is a major source of oil contamination of waterways and can result in pollution of drinking water sources.Recycled used motor oil can be re-refined into new oil, processed into fuel oils and used as raw materials for the petroleum industry.   Used Oil becomes unfit for further use because of accumulating contaminants and the loss of performance from oil additives. Waste motor oils are highly contaminated, viscous liquids that contain, in addition to solid contaminants, water, fuel, and products from the "aging" of hydrocarbons and decomposition of additives.Used motor oil is often contaminated with lead (from gasoline), magnesium, copper, zinc, PCB's and other heavy metals which are picked up from the engine. These heavy metals can contaminate our drinking water and cause health problems.

The main contaminants are:
WATER:  Fuel burns to CO2 and H2O. When an engine is cold the water created can pass through to the lube oil.
FUEL:  Unburnt  petrol / diesel passes through to the lube oil during engine start-ups.
CARBON: Forms as a result of incomplete combustion when an engine is warming up and passes through to the lube oil.
DUST:  Small particles pass into the engine through the air breather.
METALS:  Due to normal engine component wear.
OXIDATION PRODUCTS:  Additive chemicals at elevated temperatures in the presence of oxygen can oxidize forming corrosive acids.
Recycled (Refined) Oil:Refined base oil is the end product of a long process involving used oils. These oils are first cleansed of their contaminants such as dirt, water, fuel, and used additives, through Recycling Machine(LYE). LYE will remove any remaining chemicals. This process is not similar to what traditional oil refineries do to recycle used motor oil (Acid wash) .Refined Oil Good As Virgin: Test after test has shown that an refined oil is of equal or better quality than an oil made from a virgin base stock.Used oil can be refined over and over with no compromise in the quality of the lubricant.
BASE OIL:The main component of Lube Oil. It does not ‘wear out', but simply becomes dirty.
DEPLETED ADDITIVES: The additives in the lube oil lose their performance characteristics.

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