Process for the acid-catalyzed cleavage of fatty acid glycerides and apparatus therefor

US5128070A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Reinhold Sedelies · Schifferstadt, DE
• Wilhelm Johannisbauer · Erkrath, DE
• Guenter Wozny · Hohen Neuendorf, DE
• Lutz Jeromin · Hilden, DE
• Gerhard Dieckelm · Hilden, DE
• Manfred Lindemann · Solingen, DE
• Gerd Matrong · Goldkronach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 1, 1989
• Grant date: Jul 7, 1992
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11C1/04
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of fatty acid glycerides, wherein the process is carried out continuously with the glyceride and the water being moved countercurrent to each other, and apparatus therefor.