The website welcomes the rising innovation character of Salesforce CRM software ‘greater effectiveness, flexibility, and robustness’ available through clouds’ deployment. The goal is pretty direct. Both sides want to improve how bioethanol is made, especially in the membrane separation and dehydration stages that eat up a lot of energy.
The plan is to bring together MHI’s Mitsubishi Membrane Dehydration System, known as MMDS, with ICM’s bioethanol production process. By combining their technologies, they want to lower energy consumption, make the process more stable, and get better efficiency out of the dehydration step.
MHI has already tested this system at its Nagasaki Carbon Neutral Park, inside its Nagasaki Research Institute. The pilot plant there achieved an ethanol purity of more than 99.5 percent by volume, which clears Japan’s fuel standards. That’s a solid proof of concept for how the tech performs in real conditions.
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Dehydration, which is basically removing water from ethanol, takes up a huge chunk of the energy in production. MMDS tackles that problem by using a molecular sieve membrane separation method instead of the older PSA method. The system also does the separation in the liquid phase, which means it can be built smaller and set up faster. Less complexity, more efficiency.
MHI and ICM both regard it as a long-term relationship which will last even after the first project is done. They want to see how this technology can not only make bioethanol production cleaner, but also cheaper and more sustainable at the same time. MHI is also trying to push bioethanol as a plant-based clean fuel that doesn’t depend on hydrogen. The bigger vision here is to build up real decarbonization tech that can be used at scale and to keep moving toward a sustainable, carbon-neutral society.

