Atomistic simulation framework for molten salt vapor–liquid equilibrium prediction and its application to NaCl
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Abstract
Knowledge of the vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) properties of molten salts is important in the design of thermal energy storage systems for solar power and nuclear energy production applications. The high temperatures involved make their experimental determination problematic, and the development of both macroscopic thermodynamic correlations and predictive molecular-based methodologies are complicated by the requirement to appropriately incorporate the chemically reacting vapor-phase species. We derive a general thermodynamic-based atomistic simulation framework for molten salt VLE prediction and show its application to NaCl. Its input quantities are temperature-dependent ideal-gas free energy data for the vapor phase reactions and density and residual chemical potential data for the liquid. If these are not available experimentally, the former may be predicted using standard electronic structure software, and the latter may be predicted by means of classical atomistic simulation methodology. The framework predicts the temperature dependence of vapor pressure, coexisting phase densities, vapor phase composition, and vaporization enthalpy. It also predicts the concentrations of vapor phase species present in minor amounts (such as the free ions), quantities that are extremely difficult to measure experimentally. We furthermore use the results to obtain an approximation to the complete VLE binodal dome and the critical properties. We verify the framework for molten NaCl, for which experimentally based density and chemical potential data are available in the literature. We then apply it to the analysis of NaCl simulation data for two commonly used atomistic force fields. The framework can be readily extended to molten salt mixtures and to ionic liquids.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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