Process for heterogeneously catalysed esterfication of fatty acids

US8536357B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BAYER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Wulf Dietrich · Cologne, DE
• Dieter Heinz · Heppenheim, DE
• Leslaw Mleczko · Bochum, DE
• Shaibal Roy · Sammamish, US
• Heinrich Morhenn · Cologne, DE
• Robert Tyron Hanlon · Philadelphia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/10
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for esterifying free fatty acids in vegetable and animal fat with alcohols over heterogeneous acidic ion exchange resin catalysts at temperatures of 60 to 120° C.