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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for continuously producing a polyester by reusing a glycol generated in the production process of the polyester, capable of producing a high quality polyester economically and stably by controlling the esterification reaction with a simple method. SOLUTION: This method for continuously producing the polyester by mixing an aromatic dicarboxylic acid with the glycol in a slurry-preparation vessel to make slurry, feeding the slurry into an esterification reaction vessel to perform the esterification reaction, feeding the obtained low molecular weight polyester to a polycondensation reaction vessel to polycondensate, fractionating and removing a low boiling fraction consisting mainly of water from the glycol distilled off from the polyester production process by a distillation column installed in the polyester production process and circulating/reusing residual content taken out from the bottom part of the distillation column as the recovered glycol is provided by controlling the water content of the recovered glycol within 2 to 3±2.0 mass%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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