Development of High Performance Polybenzimidazole (PBI) Hollow Membrane Fibre

乙醇是许多行业使用的一种至关重要的物质。由于生物燃料和绿色塑料生产的推动，世界乙醇消费正在急剧增长。生产乙醇要消耗水和能源。怀特福克斯技术公司的S(音译)用一项专利技术使这一过程变得更加环保，该技术可以最大限度地减少浪费，同时提高水和能源效率。他们的单步模块化膜工艺适用于不同等级的乙醇(燃料和工业)，对高水分具有很强的耐受性，不需要蒸馏阶段。20年来，怀特福克斯一直与工程公司和乙醇生产商合作，将膜技术应用于乙醇脱水生产高品级乙醇。怀特福克斯已经开发并商业化了基于有机溶剂膜辅助脱水的工艺解决方案，他们拥有一项新的技术，即聚苯并咪唑(PBI)纤维。他们正在寻求与SAIT合作，以实现一致的新型中空纤维膜技术平台，用于机械、热(高于500℃)和化学暴露下的各种技术分离。这一新的高效工艺显著减少了在制药、医疗诊断、有机特产和生物燃料商品生产中使用乙醇过程中的能源消耗、水使用和温室气体排放。Whitefox正在为欧洲、巴西和北美的客户提供解决方案，其模块化系统可满足从每天6000升到100万升的各种容量。

Ethanol is a vital substance used across many industries. The world's ethanol consumption is growingdramatically due to the drive for biofuels and green plastic production. Ethanol production consumes water andenergy. Whitefox Technologies Inc.'s (Whitefox) has greened this process with a patented technology thatminimizes waste while increasing water and energy efficiencies. Their single step modular membrane process for various grades of ethanol (fuel and industrial) have a strong tolerance for high water content removing the need for a distillation stage. The outcome is a novel, fully integrated process that maximizes water and energy efficiencies.For 20 years, Whitefox has worked with engineering companies and ethanol producers to apply membranetechnology to ethanol dehydration producing a high grade ethanol. Whitefox has developed andcommercialized process solutions based on membrane-assisted dehydration of organic solvents They have a new a promising technology with Polybenzimidazole (PBI) fibers. They are seeking to work with SAIT toachieve a consistent novel hollow fibre membrane technology platform for a variety of technical separations under mechanical, thermal (above 500° C) and chemical exposure. This novel efficient process significantly reduces energy consumption, water usage and greenhouse gas emission during the use of ethanol in theproduction of pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, organic specialties and biofuel commodities. Whitefox is providing solutions to customers in Europe, Brazil and North America, with a modular system catering to alarge range of capacities from 6,000 to 1 million liters per day.