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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2004
Applicants:
Takanobu Katayama, Wakayama, JP;
Nobuhiro Tatsumi, Wakayama, JP;
Osamu Tabata, Wakayama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kao Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C11C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for producing a fatty acid ester by using a fatty acid and an alcohol as starting materials, including reducing the acid value of a raw material supplied to a catalyst layer to an acid value lower than the acid value of a raw material fatty acid and then esterifying the raw material in the presence of a solid catalyst.