Greenbelt has deployed Hitachi Zosen’s high-performance zeolite ceramic membrane innovation in its operations to achieve a high purity ethanol through efficient extraction of residual moisture.
Motivated by the know-how of Hitachi Zosen’s membrane structure and their process design criteria, Greenbelt invented a module to house the membranes and an overall system design, which is simple and highly efficient as well as achieve target ethanol standards.
The new Greenbelt dehydration module featuring Hitachi Zosen design enables membrane technology to become a viable alternative to molecular sieves, which is used to dehydrate ethanol.
Hitachi Zosen research and development strategy department general manager Masanobu Aizawa said that the addition of its zeolite ceramic membrane to the Greenbelt solution will help the company in its efforts to establish overseas partners and expand the use of the technology.
"Greenbelt has the most extensive knowledge of using membrane technology in the ethanol dehydration process in the US and our collaboration is ideal for us to leverage our innovations and add value that is useful to our global society," added Aizawa.
