METHOD FOR PRODUCING FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTER AND/OR GLYCERIN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily produce high-quality fatty acid alkyl ester and/or glycerin in a high yield. SOLUTION: An oil and an alcohol are reacted in the presence of a solid catalyst in a first reactor 10 and a second reactor 20 to obtain a reaction liquid containing fatty acid alkyl ester and/or glycerin. The alcohol is distilled from the reaction liquid using an alcohol distillation column 23 that is a distillation column provided with a heat exchanger having a short retention time, and the resulting reaction solution is phase-separated to a fatty acid alkyl ester phase and a glycerin phase. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT