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Offline coolsuman

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adsorption of methanol
« on: June 01, 2008, 01:08:31 PM »
hai friends.
can we separate the methanol-water(30wt% methanol) mixture by adsorption? if so , which adsorbent is used for doing separation? and how it had to be done.

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Re: adsorption of methanol
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2008, 02:02:37 PM »
Hi coolsuman,

I don't know of an efficient way to separate methanol from water. This question has been posted many times on this forum with luke-warm results at best.

This may be a good project in which you could become a millionaire  :) if you are able to figure it out.

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Re: adsorption of methanol
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2008, 08:34:20 PM »
difficult :P
maybe you can find a sorbent for that btu you can really reach higher than 80 %..as there properties are quite close to each other
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Re: adsorption of methanol
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2008, 11:38:52 PM »
the best way to remove methanol of this composition is by distillation only

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