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Chementator: Membrane Cuts the Cost of Ethanol Dehydration

| By Dorothy Lozowski

Ethanol production is an energy-intensive process in which about 50% of the cost is for distillation and dehydration of the ethanol. A membrane system that does the same job, but reduces the energy consumption by up to 50%, has been developed by Vaperma…