Patent 7271275 was granted and assigned to Kao Corporation on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a process for producing a fatty acid ester by using a fatty acid and an alcohol as starting materials, including reducing the acid value of a raw material supplied to a catalyst layer to an acid value lower than the acid value of a raw material fatty acid and then esterifying the raw material in the presence of a solid catalyst.