The application discloses a method for improving the quality of lubricating oil
base oil. The method is a hydrocracking process in which a hydrofining reactor and a hydrocracking reactor are connected in series, a hydrocracking catalyst
bed and a post-hydrofining catalyst
bed are arranged in the hydrocracking reactor, and the method comprises the following steps: feeding a
wax oil
raw material and
hydrogen into the hydrofining reactor, and performing a hydrofining reaction on the
raw material and the
hydrogen by using the hydrofining catalyst to obtain a hydrofining
stream; feeding the hydrofining
stream into the hydrocracking reactor, and feeding the material P into the hydrocracking reactor between the hydrocracking catalyst
bed and the post-hydrofining catalyst bed; performing
air cooling on the obtained product, and performing water injection on the product in the
air cooling process so that the material P in the product is carried out of the
reaction system by the water phase; and performing separation and
fractionation on the
oil phase after the
air cooling to obtain a
tail oil fraction heavier than diesel oil, and using the
tail oil fraction as the lubricating oil
base oil. The method can improve the quality of the lubricating oil
base oil product while ensuring the yield of the lubricating oil base oil in the hydrocracking device.