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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1986
James D Bell, Toronto, CA;
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
Hydrocarbon oils, particularly petroleum oils, more particularly lube, transformer, white oil and other specialty oils can be extracted to remove aromatic hydrocarbon components therefrom using a combination polar extraction solvent, such as n-methyl pyrrolidone phenol or furfural, preferably NMP in combination with aliphatic-aromatics, polar naphthenes or morpholine, preferably alkylbenzene, mixed extraction solvent. The combination of polar extraction solvent and aliphatic-aromatic, polar naphthene or morpholine extraction solvent mixture contains and from 1 to up to but not including 10 LV % aliphatic-aromatic, polar naphthene or morpholine and mixtures thereof, preferably from 2.5 to less than 10% aliphatic-aromatic, polar naphthene or morpholine and from 0 to 10 LV % water, the amount of polar extraction solvent being suitably adjusted to reflect the presence of the water. Extraction using the combination solvent is conducted at a temperature above the haze point of the oil being extracted but at tower bottoms temperature at least 30.degree. C., and preferably 40.degree. C., or more below the critical solution temperature of the feed-solvent mixture.