Molecular dynamics simulations and thermodynamic modeling of NaCl–KCl–ZnCl2 ternary system
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Abstract The NaCl–KCl–ZnCl2 ternary system is examined and modeled using the CALPHAD methodology in conjunction with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In particular, MD simulations are used for calculating liquid enthalpies of mixing as a function of composition for the ternary and its binary sub-systems. In addition, key structural features are obtained from MD that is then used for informing the employed two-sublattice ionic liquid model (Na+1, K+1: Cl−1, ZnCl2), which describes the ternary liquid phase. The structure of the simulated liquid systems show that Zn+2 cations primarily exhibit 4-fold coordination in addition to a smaller percentage of 5-fold followed by 3-fold coordination; in contrast, the coordination of both Na+ and K+ cations are distributed between 2- and 4-fold states. The optimized self-consistent thermodynamic model parameters show good agreement with MD data obtained in this work and available experimental literature data.
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OpenAlex topics: Ionic liquids properties and applications · Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes · Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics
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