	US 11,926,585 B2
	Process for the production of aluminum salts of a fatty acid
Hermann Josef Stolz, Bad Münstereifel (DE); Wilhelm Huber, Kerpen (DE); and Gabriel Kehren, Euskirchen (DE)
Assigned to Peter Greven GmbH & Co., KG, Bad Münstereifel (DE)
Filed by Peter Greven GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Münstereifel (DE)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,252.
Claims priority of application No. 21158204 (EP), filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0267243 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. C07C 51/41 (2006.01)

CPC C07C 51/412 (2013.01)

16 Claims

1. A process for the production of aluminum salts of a fatty acid, comprising the following steps:

a) mixing a fatty acid and an aqueous solution of a strong base to prepare an aqueous base/fatty acid mixture,

b) mixing said aqueous base/fatty acid mixture with an aluminum source to prepare an aqueous base/fatty acid/aluminum mixture, wherein said aluminum source is an alkali aluminate or aluminum powder,

c) mixing said aqueous base/fatty acid/aluminum mixture with an acid, and

d) separating the produced aluminum salts of the fatty acid.