| 摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a continuous method of preparing ethyl lactate by means of lactic acid esterification using ethanol in the presence of a catalyst. The inventive method consists in continuously extracting a mixture comprising ethyl lactate, ethanol, water and different heavy products from an esterification reaction medium at partial lactic acid conversion rate and, subsequently, subjecting said mixture to a reduced-pressure flash separation, thereby producing an overhead stream containing a mixture of ethyl lactate, ethanol and water, the lower part of said mixture supplying a fractional distillation column.</p> |
