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AICHE JOURNAL
Volume 66, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/aic.16276
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Charged clay surfaces can impact the storage and mobility of hydrocarbon and water mixtures. Here, we use equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) and nonequilibrium MD simulations to investigate hydrocarbon-water mixtures and their transport in slit-shaped illite nanopores. We construct two illite pore models with different surface chemistries: potassium-hydroxyl (PH) and hydroxyl-hydroxyl (HH) structures. In HH nanopore, we observe water adsorption on the clay surfaces. In PH nanopores, however, we observe the formation of water bridges because of the existence of a local, long-range electric field. Our NEMD simulations demonstrate that the velocity profiles across the pore depend strongly on water concentration, pore width and the presence or absence of the water bridge. This fundamental study provides a theoretical basis for understanding nanofluidics with charged surfaces and can be applied in such as biological processes, chemical and physical fields, and the oil and gas extraction in clay-rich formations.
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