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Lubricant oil is produced in a relatively small number of refineries. But making lubricant oil is highly profitable compared to making commodity fuels. The American Petroleum Institute (API) organizes lube base stocks into five categories. Groups I–III base stocks are from crude oils through solvent refining or hydroprocessing, while Groups IV and V are synthetic. Group IV is poly-α-olefins and Group V is others, mostly containing oxygen such as polyol esters. Waxes are by-products of Group I solvent refining.
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Hsu, C.S., Robinson, P.R. (2019). Lubricant Processes and Synthetic Lubricants. In: Petroleum Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16275-7_13
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