5th Asia-Pacific Base Oil Conference: Apisit Sripusitto

5th Asia-Pacific Base Oil Conference:
Clean Rubber Processing Oil for Rubber and Tyre Production

Apisit Sripusitto
Technology Manager
Thai Lube Base Public Co. Ltd.


Abstract

On January 1, 2010, the European Community started to ban the use of highly aromatic oils (HA oils) in automotive tyres. Oils used for the production of tyres or parts of tyres must contain listed PAHs less than 10 mg/kg or has polycyclic aromatic (PCA) extract less than 3%.

Treated Distillate Aromatic Extract (TDAE), Mild Extract Solvate (MES) and Naphthenic oil, are placed on the markets as low PCA or clean rubber processing oil.

However, the supply of these clean rubber processing oils cannot meet total global demand. Thai Lube Base Public Company Limited (TLB), Thailand's first lube base oil manufacturer, also supplies a full range of rubber processing oils.

To serve the high demand for clean rubber processing oil, TLB was developed. "Treated Residual Aromatic Extract" (TRAE) can pass the BLIC (European Association of the Rubber Industry) criteria for both PAHs and PCA content. TRAE was developed to produce tyre and synthetic rubber. This work will introduce TRAE products and compare their quality with other rubber processing oils (DAE, TDAE and MES).


About the Speaker

Apisit Sripusitto is Technology Manager of Thai Lube Base PCL in Chonburi, Thailand. He joined Thai Lube Base in 1996, and has 15 years of experience in lube base oil (Group I) processing and product development. Apisit received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Asia
• Pacific
• Base
• Oil
• Conference
• Apisit
• Sripusitto
• Thai
• Lube
• rubber