BIOMASS-RESOURCE-DERIVED POLYESTER AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF

摘要

Provided is a pellet obtained from a biomass-resource-derived polyester comprising as a main repeating unit thereof a dicarboxylic acid unit and a diol unit, wherein at least one of the dicarboxylic acid and diol used as raw materials of the polyester is obtained from biomass resources;and wherein a nitrogen atom content in the polyester except nitrogen atoms contained in the covalently bonded functional group in the molecule of the polyester is, in terms of a mass ratio, 0.01 ppm or greater but not greater than 50 ppm relative to the polyester.