muddstopper
Veteran Member
As I said in the other thread, I know that there is equipment that will remove the water from the oil, been there, done that and seen it work. You can also purchase reprocessed oil now from most of the major oil companies, I am sure that oil has probably seen water somewhere long before it was returned to the processing center. I dont think it is even a question of if you can remove water from the oil, but instead of a questions of is it feasible or cost effective when you are only dealing with 5-10-20 gal or like amounts of oil.
The part about atmospheric pressure and the boiling point of water is valid, we learned we could boil water in the palm of our hand in grade school science class. All you need is a air tight container and a vaccum pump and you can lower the boiling point of water to ambient temperature. The question would be, since the oil and water is mixed, will lowering the boiling point reduce the chemical conversions that take place in the emulsified mixture.
Oil is made up of all kinds of hydrocarbons, H+C, Hydrogen and carbon, and water is H2O, hydrogen and oxgen. Hydrogen (cation +) is very corrosive and is only controlled when mixed with other anionic (-) compounds. I dont have a science degree to tell how mixing the oil and water will change the chemical makeup or exchange atoms to form some other compound, but it does happen. Water and oil, extreme cavitation, emulsifications, heating and cooling, I think I would just go ahead and buy new oil and be done with it rather than take a chance with my expensive equipment trying to save a few bucks. If you have access to the right equipment to filter the oil and remove the water, by all means take advantage of it and save a few bucks. If you dont have access to the proper equipment, then my advise is stop trying to reinvent the wheel an risking your expensive equipment trying to save a few bucks.
The part about atmospheric pressure and the boiling point of water is valid, we learned we could boil water in the palm of our hand in grade school science class. All you need is a air tight container and a vaccum pump and you can lower the boiling point of water to ambient temperature. The question would be, since the oil and water is mixed, will lowering the boiling point reduce the chemical conversions that take place in the emulsified mixture.
Oil is made up of all kinds of hydrocarbons, H+C, Hydrogen and carbon, and water is H2O, hydrogen and oxgen. Hydrogen (cation +) is very corrosive and is only controlled when mixed with other anionic (-) compounds. I dont have a science degree to tell how mixing the oil and water will change the chemical makeup or exchange atoms to form some other compound, but it does happen. Water and oil, extreme cavitation, emulsifications, heating and cooling, I think I would just go ahead and buy new oil and be done with it rather than take a chance with my expensive equipment trying to save a few bucks. If you have access to the right equipment to filter the oil and remove the water, by all means take advantage of it and save a few bucks. If you dont have access to the proper equipment, then my advise is stop trying to reinvent the wheel an risking your expensive equipment trying to save a few bucks.