Research Progress in Catalysts for Fatty Acid Ester Hydrogenation

Abstract

Fatty alcohols and its derivatives have wide applications in industrial production and constitute one of the largest kind within the oleo-chemicals, and could be got by heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of fatty acids esters over suitable catalysts. The new progress in the efficiency supported copper, palladium, ruthenium catalysts and metal hydrides for fatty acid ester hydrogenation was reviewed, further development was also discussed.