Membrane Separation & Continuous Moving Bed Technology for Sugar Production

Product Overview

The sugar production membrane and continuous moving bed system is a high-efficiency, eco-friendly solution for sugar solution extraction and purification. By integrating membrane filtration, nanofiltration concentration, and continuous moving bed (CMB) ion exchange, the system achieves impurity removal, sugar solution clarification, fructose–glucose separation, and process water reuse. This technology significantly enhances sugar solution purity, reduces resin and chemical usage, minimizes wastewater discharge, and optimizes resource utilization and production efficiency.

Working Principle

• Membrane Filtration: Replaces traditional rotary drum filtration to treat saccharified solutions, removing unhydrolyzed starch, proteins, fats, and other impurities, improving filtrate quality while reducing filter aid usage and color reversion issues.

• Continuous Moving Bed (CMB) Ion Exchange: Uses continuous ion exchange beds for deashing, saving over 70% of resin consumption, reducing regenerant and rinse water by more than 50%, and decreasing wastewater discharge by over 60%.

• Nanofiltration (NF): Concentrates and purifies sugar solution, efficiently removing polysaccharides and other impurities to achieve high-purity glucose and fructose.

• Industrial Chromatography: Separates fructose and glucose effectively, ensuring product purity and consistent quality.

• Process Water Reuse: Membrane technology enables recycling of process water, lowering production costs and improving overall resource efficiency.

Key Features

• Enhanced Product Quality: Effectively removes impurities, ensuring high-purity, stable sugar solutions.

• Reduced Resource Consumption: CMB technology minimizes resin and chemical use.
• High Production Efficiency: Continuous 24-hour operation ensures stable high yield and shorter production cycles.
• Eco-Friendly & Energy Saving: Substantially lowers wastewater discharge and meets environmental standards.
• Easy Operation & Maintenance: Compact process design supports automation and simplifies maintenance.

Applications

• Sugar Production: High-efficiency extraction and purification of glucose, maltose, fructose–glucose syrup, and other sugar products.
• Food Industry: Production of high-purity edible sugars such as white sugar and brown sugar for premium food applications.
• Pharmaceutical Raw Materials: High-purity glucose production to meet stringent pharmaceutical standards.

• Chemical Industry: Sugar as a chemical feedstock, with membrane technology ensuring high purity for industrial applications.