Abstract:
A dewaxing device and a method of dewaxing using the dewaxing device are shown. The dewaxing device includes a dewaxing system including a rinsing device and a storage device, and a recycling system connected with the storage device. The storage device includes a first solvent trough and a second solvent trough of which each is connected with the rinsing device and is equipped with a heating equipment. When the first solvent trough is connected with the rinsing device, the second solvent trough is disconnected with the rinsing device; when the second solvent trough is connected with the rinsing device, the first solvent trough is disconnected with the rinsing device. So, the dewaxing device can provide two dewaxing processes and effectively reduce recycling frequency because the recycling process is done after soluble wax quantity of bromopropane solvent reaches the maximum value 16%. The production cost is accordingly reduced.
Abstract:
An early meltdown process of wax sweating is provided which enhances the efficiency, quality, product yield, and throughput of wax. In the early meltdown process, slack wax is crystallized. The crystallized wax is then sweated while simultaneously draining the liquid drippings from the sweating oven. The congealing point of the liquid drippings are monitored. When the congealing point of the liquid drippings indicate that the melting temperature of the desired wax product has been obtained, sweating and drainage are stopped, and the remaining solid bed of wax in the sweating oven is rapidly melted and subsequently upgraded.
Abstract:
Deoiling of slack wax or other similar wax composition is accomplished while the wax is confined in a series of cells which are spaced apart by only one-sixteenth to one-half inch and which are vertically or otherwise disposed for drainage along the surfaces thereof from an upper margin to a lower margin. The spaces between the plates are filled to a depth of 4 to 24 inches, preferably 6 to 12 inches, with wax in the melted state while the spaces between the plates are closed off at their lower margins by a body of liquid, preferably a body of the wax, that is of substantial depth underneath the lower margins of said plates and is maintained in contact with the lower margins of the plates. The temperature of the plates is then lowered by lowering the temperature of a temperature-controlling fluid such as water that is flowed through a multiplicity of conduits that traverse the plates in thermally-conductive relation therewith with concomitant solidification of the wax between the plates. While the wax is confined in the solid state the body of liquid is removed, which removal may be facilitated by application of heat in the case of a liquid such as wax. After removal of the body of liquid the temperature of the wax between the plates is gradually increased by gradually heating the temperature-controlling fluid with concomitant drainage of the lower melting point constituents from the spaces between the plates for their recovery separated from the higher melting point constituents which remain between the plates and which are subsequently recovered by raising the temperature of the temperature-controlling fluid to a still higher temperature until the higher melting point wax components are melted for drainage and recovery separated from the lower melting point constituents.
Abstract:
In a rotary filter dewaxing-deoiling process, the apparatus for improving the deoiling of the wax cake is described, characterized by utilizing a plurality of transverse solvent distributor pipes each of which dispense a relatively dense transverse curtain of solvent droplets on the wax cake thereby providing areas of solvent flooding interspaced with areas of considerably reduced solvent concentration.