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 a tower bottoms temperature at least 30°C, and preferably 40°C, or more below the critical solution temperature of the feed-solvent mixture.
烃类油,特别是石油油,尤其是润滑油、变压器油、白油和其它特种油,可以使用极性萃取溶剂,例如正甲基
吡咯烷酮
苯酚或
糠醛,最好是
NMP,与脂肪族
芳香烃、极性环
烷烃或吗啉,最好是烷基苯,混合萃取溶剂一起萃取,以去除其中的
芳香烃成分。
极性萃取溶剂与脂肪族
芳香烃、极性环
烷烃或吗啉萃取溶剂混合物的组合含有 1 至 10 LV%的脂肪族
芳香烃、极性环
烷烃或吗啉及其混合物,最好是 2.5 至小于 10%的脂肪族
芳香烃、极性环
烷烃或吗啉,以及 0 至 10 LV%的
水,极性萃取溶剂的量可适当调整以反映
水的存在。使用组合溶剂的萃取是在高于被萃取油混浊点的温度下进行的,但塔底温度至少要低于进料-溶剂混合物的临界溶液温度 30°C,最好是 40°C 或更低。