Fully synthetic base oil is mainly characterised by its very good thermal stability and cleaning performance. As high performance as it is, so laborious its manufacture also is. So-called naphtha (petrol without additives) serves as the base product.
Naphtha is cracked in the first step, which means that the molecule chains (C5 - C12) split open and are broken down to a length of C2. The former liquid is now gaseous. In the consequent synthesis process the short molecule chains (C2) are added to long molecule chains (C20-C35) and sealed by adding hydrogen (hydrogenation).
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