PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC DEWAXING OF REFINERY DERIVED LUBRICATING BASE OIL PRECURSOR

摘要

A process for catalytic dewaxing of more than one refinery-derived lubricating base oil precursor which comprises contacting in a first reaction zone in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas at hydrodewaxing conditions a first feed stream comprising a first refinery-derived raffinate lubricating base oil precursor which contains a first wax comprising straight-chain paraffins with a first hydrodewaxing catalyst selective for conversion of said first wax and contacting in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas at hydrodewaxing conditions in a parallel-situated second reaction zone a second refinery-derived raffinate lubricating base oil precursor which contains a second wax containing branched and/or cyclic hydrocarbons with a second hydrodewaxing catalyst selective for conversion of said second wax, and optionally contacting in one or more further reaction zones further refinery-derived waxy raffinate lubricating base oil precursor feed streams in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas at hydrodewaxing conditions with a hydrodewaxing catalyst, and removing at least two parallel effluent streams of refinery dewaxed lubricating base oils from said reaction zones.