My reaction mixture has mixture of water and methanol. I want to separate water from methanol, can I use silica gel? Will it also adsorb methanol along with water? or please suggest me any other adsorbent which can selectively remove water only without affecting methanol concentration.
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I agree with the other answers. Need to look at what else is in your mixture, is this gas or liquid phase, what T and P and what is the scale - lab or large scale industrial.
Thank you all for the guidance.
My mixture is in gas phase at temperature greater than 250 and pressure in the range 50-60 bar and i am performing it in lab scale reactor.
Under the high temperature and pressure conditions specified, silica would weakly adsorb both H2O and CH3OH because it does not expose strong Lewis acid sites capable of dissociative chemisorption of both molecules.
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