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Production of White Oils of sufficient purity to pass the Hot Acid Carbonizable Substances Test and Ultraviolet Absorbance Test is carried out in two stages utilizing lubricating oil feedstock of a broad range of viscosities. The first stage hydrogenation utilizes a sulfur-resistant catalyst which produces an intermediate product of lower viscosity than the starting feedstock. The second stage hydrogenation catalyst is nickel on alumina and is further characterized as having a BET surface area in the range of 130-190 m.sup.2 /g. SUBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThis invention relates to a method for the production of highly refined oils called white oils from petroleum products, and more particularly to a novel two step process to produce white oils of pharmaceutical grade which will pass the Hot Acid Carbonizable Substances Test and Ultraviolet Absorbance Test.2. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ARTWhite mineral oils called white oils are colorless, transparent, oily liquids obtained by the refining of crude petroleum feedstocks. In the production of white oils the petroleum feedstocks are refined to eliminate as completely as possible oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds, reactive hydrocarbons including aromatics, and any other impurity which would prevent use of the resulting white oil in the pharmaceutical industry. White oils generally fall into two classes, that is, technical grade white oils which are used in cosmetics, textile lubrication, bases for insecticides and the like, and more highly refined pharmaceutical grade white oils such as used in drug compositions, foods and for the lubrication of food handling machinery. For such applications, the pharmaceutical grade white oils must be chemically inert and without color, odor or taste. The present invention is primarily concerned with the production of pharmaceutical grade white oils.The prior art is well aware of numerous processes for the production of white oils of both grades. In general, the first step in the production of white oil has been the removal of the lighter portions, such as gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, and light fractions, from the feedstock by fractional distillation. In the early processes the white oil was then refined by treatment with sulfuric acid to remove unsaturated aromatic and unstable hydroaromatic compounds which comprised most of the impurities present in the oil. Usually, the acid treated oil was then subject to adsorption refining to remove such impurities as carbon, coke, asphaltic substances, coloring matter and the like.The conventional methods of making white oils with sulfuric acid however, have been subject to objection in recent years since acid treating is costly and gives rise to unmanageable amounts of sludge comprising sulfuric acid aromatic adducts and thus environmental objections arise because of the attendant disposal and corrosion problems.Because of objections to sulfuric acid treatments, new procedures have been developed for the production of white oils from hydrocarbond feedstocks. Representative processes are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,629,096, 3,553,107, 3,673,078, U.S. Pat. No. R. 27,845, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,080,313 and 3,392,112. In general, all of these patents disclose production of white oils in generally highly refined states by subjecting the feedstocks to contact with various types of catalysts in one or more steps. In general, in the first step of these processes the feedstock is subjected to a hydrogenation treatment in the presence of a sulfur resistant catalyst to produce an intermediate product of reasonably low sulfur content. The intermediate product is then subjected to a second stage treatment in the presence of hydrogen and a sulfur sensitive catalyst in order to reduce aromatic compounds and produce a substantially pure product. In many of the prior art patents a third stage is then utilized by contacting the second stage product with sulfuric acid and/or adsorption in order to complete the purification and provide a white oil of sufficient purity to meet the pharmaceutical standards for food grade white oils.Of particular pertinence to the present invention is U.S. Pat. No. 3,392,112 to Bercik et al which discloses a method for manufacturing refined oils by a two stage process involving an initial stage of contacting a petroleum hydrocarbon feedback with a sulfur resistant hydrogenation catalyst under hydrogenation conditions to produce a partly hydrogenated intermediate product. Thereafter, the intermediate product is then contacted in a second hydrogenation stage with a sulfur-resistant catalyst comprising reduced nickel composited with a diatomaceous earth. According to the patent, this two stage system will provide a product having a very low sulfur content and having sufficient purity to pass the tests required by the pharmaceutical industry.The process of the present invention is an improvement on this prior process in that the catalyst used in the second stage of the process can be supported not only on Keiselguhr but also on alumina and thus the process is not subject to the specific requirements for using a diatomaceous earth catalyst support. Moreover, the process of the present invention can also be used on feedstocks having a wide range of viscosities to produce very highly refined white oils. Thus, the present invention provides a process of wide application in the art to provide a pharmaceutical grade white oil in a two stage treatment.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIt is accordingly one object of this invention to provide a process for the production of pharmaceutical grade white oils.It is a further object to this invention to provide a two stage catalytic treatment of petroleum hydrocarbon feedstocks to produce highly pure pharmaceutical grade white oils.A still further object of the invention is to provide a two stage treatment of hydrocarbon feedstocks to produce refind white oils having sufficient purity to pass the Hot Acid Carbonizable Substances Test and Ultraviolet Absorbance Test without the necessity for further purification steps.A still further object of the invention is to provide a two step catalytic treatment of hydrocarbon feedstocks for the production of highly pure white oils for use in pharmaceutical applications utilizing a nickel catalyst in the second stage and without the necessity of additional treatment steps wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock used may have a wide range of viscosities.Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent as the description thereof proceeds.In satisfaction of the foregoing objects and advantages there is provided by this invention a method for the manufacture of highly refined pharmaceutical grade white oils by a two stage catalytic treatment which comprises subjecting a petroleum feedstock to a first stage hydrogenation in the presence of a sulfur resistant catalyst to effect desulfurization, and then contacting the product recovered from the first stage to a second stage hydrogenation treatment in the presence of a nickel catalyst on a support. The white oil product covered from the second stage is sufficiently pure to pass the Hot Acid Carbonizable Substances Test and Ultraviolet Absorbance Test without the necessity of additional treatment.
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A method is disclosed for converting seismic data obtained at known points to synthesized seismic traces obtainable at arbitrarily selected points. Two dimensional seismic data are converted to dense three dimensional data with the aid of a programmed computer to permit generation of arbitrary views of a particular geologic structure as well as a mathematical representation of the structure. The data is used to locate potential drilling and mining locations for drilling oil or other minerals. In order to provide accurate interpolation from the sparse two dimensional data, both apparent and true dip characteristics are obtained for the surveyed structure, and seismic trace data for a desired point are synthesized as a function of the dip of the surveyed structure. The dip characteristics are obtained from partial derivatives of the two dimensional data in specified coordinate directions. A three dimensional surface corresponding to the dip characteristics is obtained by a least squares fitting technique. The data obtained at the known points are weighted both by distance from the desired point and the semblance coefficients associated with dip for these points to synthesize the desired data.
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A surface coating composition comprising an amino-functional silicone polymer, a metal chelated acrylic polymer a hydrocarbon solvent and water. The metal-chelated acrylic polymer preferably comprises zinc, and the composition may further comprise abrasive materials, surfactants, thickeners and stabilizers. The surface coating composition is particularly adapted for providing a glossy and durable finish on a surface.
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Middle phase emulsions are broken by subjecting the emulsion to a first atmospheric distillation step to remove water, followed by a second vacuum distillation step to recover oil. The residue contains the surfactant. The atmospheric distillation is generally carried out by steam distillation.
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A rust conversion composition comprises the reaction product of a polyhydroxybenzoic acid and a alkane polyol, in admixture with a film forming polymer, and water. The composition is applied to rusted, iron-containing surface, and allowed to dry to form a hard, moisture and corrosion resistant film. Alternatively, the film may be removed to produce an iron-containing surface free of rust.
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A grinding apparatus for thoroughly crushing, particulating and/or fragmenting materials that are firm or soft. The apparatus is particularly suitable for grinding plant leaf tissue. The grinding apparatus includes a rotatable reamer and a cup for receiving the reamer. The reamer has teeth that form a grinding surface, these teeth extending radially outward from a center point of the grinding surface. A second set of teeth form the inner bottom surface of the cup and provide another grinding surface. The cup teeth correspond to the reamer teeth so as to mesh therewith and produce a camming action during rotation of the reamer.
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A method is disclosed for the acidulation of phosphate rock and the production of substantially pure alkali metal phosphates, calcium phosphates, and phosphoric acid which are essentially free of fluorides and recovery of the fluorine values from the starting phosphate rock in useful form. The steps of the method comprise initial acidulation of phosphate rock with a phosphoric acid solution containing sufficient alkali metal values to provide R.sub.2 O in the system, where R is alkali metal, to solubilize the phosphates and form an insoluble precipitate comprising a mixture of impurities, sand (SiO.sub.2) and the fluorides, from which the fluorides can be recovered in usable form. In preferred embodiments, after removal of the precipitate containing the fluorides, a portion of the solution of phosphoric acid and calcium phosphate is reacted with sulfuric acid and RHSO.sub.4 or R.sub.2 SO.sub.4 where R is alkali metal, to form a solution of RH.sub.2 PO.sub.4 and phosphoric acid and at least a portion of the RH.sub.2 PO.sub.4 and phosphoric acid solution is recycled to the initial acidulation to provide the R.sub.2 O and phosphoric acid makeup. The remainder of the solution of calcium phosphate and phosphoric acid may be further processed for recovery of useful products such as monocalcium phosphate and/or dicalcium phosphate, phosphoric acid, alkali metal phosphates, and calcium sulfate.
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This invention relates to a substantially hydrogen saturated hydrocarbon product formed by the hydrogenation of waxy polyethylene alpha-olefin having an average molecular weight of about 350 to about 900. The hydrogenation is conducted at pressures ranging from about 200 psig to about 1000 psig and at hydrogenating temperatures below about 750.degree. F in the presence of a conventional active hydrogenation catalyst. The resulting product may be utilized as a substitute for petroleum wax in the production of various compositions, such as carpet backing compositions, candle wax compositions, pressure sure sensitive tape, paper coating compositions, coatings for fruit, rust preventatives, cosmetics, and similar products. In such compositions the novel hydrogenated alpha olefins may be substituted for petroleum wax as customarily used or it may be used as an extender in any desired proportion with petroleum wax.
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Potassium phosphates useful as fertilizer materials, are produced by the reaction of phosphate rock or a solubilized form thereof, concentrated sulfuric acid and potassium hydrogen sulfate wherein the potassium hydrogen sulfate is added in a controlled manner and preferably in admixture with at least a portion of the sulfuric acid, the precipitated calcium sulfate precipitate is removed and the filtrate processed for recovery of the potassium phosphates. In further embodiments, high-sulfate containing filtrates are treated to lower the sulfate ion content of the products and effect partial neutralization by any of several methods such as by treatment thereof with fresh phosphate rock or source of calcium ion such as calcium oxide, alternatively or successively, and the resulting solution is used as a fertilizer, or liquids are removed and the solids are dried and/or dehydrated for recovery of the potassium phosphate compounds. Also methods are provided for the addition of nitrogen values.
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Detergent compositions for use in cleaning automotive surfaces, particularly whitewall tires, vinyl tops, and upholstery fabric material, comprise a sequestering agent, a wetting agent, a surfactant, a penetrant, a foam booster, and optionaly a perfume and/or coloring agent in an aqueous carrier. The composition is preferably placed in brush top aerosol cans for use as a cleaner.