Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2000, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (5): 762.

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A Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Infinite Dilute Diffusion Coefficients of Benzene and Naphthalene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

ZHOU Jian, LU Xiao-Hua, WANG Yan-Ru, SHI Jun   

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing 210009, China
  • Received:1999-05-31 Online:2000-05-24 Published:2000-05-24

Abstract: The self-diffusion coefficients of supercritical carbon dioxide and the infinite dilute diffusion coefficients of benzene and naphthalene in supercritical carbon dioxide were investigated by MDsimulation with spherical Lennard-Jones model and site-site model respectively. It was shown that both spherical model and site-site model could be used to predict the self-diffusion coefficients of supercritical carbon dioxide well. The site-site model could be used to predict the self-diffusion coefficients more precisely than the spherical model does. An attempt has been made to compare the simulation results of infinite dilute diffusion coefficients of benzene and naphthalene in supercritical carbon dioxide between simple spherical model and site-site model. It was found that there was scarcely any difference between the prediction accuracies obtained from the two models. The site-site model could probe the detailed microstructure of supercritical systems more precisely.

Key words: Self-diffusion coefficient, Infinite dilute diffusion coefficient, Supercritical fluid, Molecular dynamics, Molecular simulation

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