PROCESS FOR PRODUCING (METH)ACRYLIC ESTER

摘要

An industrially advantageous process for producing a (meth)acrylic ester that has been improved so as to prolong the life of strongly acidic cation exchange resin catalyst. There is provided a process for producing a (meth)acrylic ester, comprising the reaction step of subjecting (meth)acrylic acid and a C1-C4 alcohol to an esterification reaction in the presence of a strongly acidic cation exchange resin catalyst to thereby obtain a (meth)acrylic ester and the recovery step of separating any unreacted (meth)acrylic acid from the reaction mixture obtained in the reaction step, the unreacted (meth)acrylic acid recycled to the reaction step, wherein any solid contents are separated from the unreacted (meth)acrylic acid being recycled to the reaction step.