Back to results
US 2009/0023962 A1Published application
Method for producing alcohol
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsToru Sakamoto, Masanori Namba, Nobuhiro Tatsumi
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to a process for producing an alcohol from fats and oils, including: step 1 of reacting starting fats and oils with water to produce a reaction product containing a glycerin unit, and step 2 of subjecting the reaction product obtained in step 1 to a hydrogenation reaction in the presence of a catalyst in the coexistence of water in an amount of 0.5 mole or more relative to 1 mole of the glycerin unit contained in the reaction product.
Claims5
A process for producing an alcohol from fats and oils, comprising:
- a first step of reacting starting fats and oils with water to produce a reaction product having a glycerin unit, and
- a second step of hydrogenating the reaction product obtained in a first step in the presence of a catalyst in the coexistence of water in an amount of 0.5 mole or more relative to 1 mole of the glycerin unit contained in the reaction product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.