Oil recycling is one of the processes which has alternative to choose what to do with waste oil. As you can see, waste oil can be useful again after filter process. It can be reused effectively. However, waste oil should be disposed properly so that there will be no risk for both human and environment. As following, there are three ideas provided to reuse your waste oil.
1. A base stock for lubricants – Waste oil can be reused as a base stock for lubricants. To make waste oil as a base stock for lubricants, the oil should be filtered for getting rid of any impurities. As the result, waste oil can be virgin oil with high quality. According to GreenTruck.com, to reuse oil in this way is kind of more energy-efficient than drilling and refining new oil without doubt. About 50 to 85 percent is used less energy than making new lubricants from crude oil by this way of oil recycling.
2. Fuel for heat and electricity – Waste oil can be reused as Fuel for heat and electricity. It can be powered for both power stations and heating systems. In the household, recycled oil can be power for a day with the about two gallons of them. Moreover, waste oil can be reused as a fuel source if it is improved the burning quality and increased the efficiency. This way of oil recycling is quite common as there are over 1000 facilities which are on the process of reusing waste oil for heat in the U.S.
3. To blend with diesel fuel – Waste oil can be blended with diesel to get most heavy-duty engines. There is no harm to the engine if diesel is blended up to one percent of waste oil.
Oil does not always mean that it is useless after being used. There are a few ways to make it become useful again as the ways mentioned above. Let’s start oil recycling now for preserving our environment.
