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Phase Equilibria of CO<sub>2</sub> and <i>n</i>-Alkanes in Bulk and Confined Space Using Parallelized Wang–Landau Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo Simulations

2025· article· en· W4409210176 on OpenAlexafffund
Jilong Xu, Harold W. Hatch, Vincent K. Shen, Zhehui Jin

Bibliographic record

VenueEnergy & Fuels · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicPhase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlliance de recherche numérique du Canada
KeywordsMonte Carlo methodStatistical physicsSpace (punctuation)Phase transitionPhysicsMatrix (chemical analysis)Materials scienceCondensed matter physicsMathematicsComputer scienceStatistics

Abstract

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The accurate and fast simulation of CO 2 and n -alkane phase equilibria is crucial for guiding their industrial applications. We used Wang–Landau Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (WL-TMMC) with the Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit (FEASST) software to compute the vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) of CO 2 -methane and CO 2 -hexane systems in both bulk and confined spaces. The bulk-phase simulation results were compared with literature data and constant volume Gibbs Ensemble (NVT-GEMC) results, with relative errors less than 6%. For confined systems, the results were compared with gauge cell grand-canonical Monte Carlo (gauge-GCMC) and pore–pore GEMC, with relative errors less than 8%. Notably, the WL-TMMC exhibits significant advantages in computing VLE for confined spaces. It requires only a single simulation to determine a pair of VLE points without being constrained by prespecified chemical potentials or pore geometry. Furthermore, the method provides free energy information for different fluid states, enabling the construction of a complete van der Waals loop from a single simulation. In conclusion, we demonstrate that WL-TMMC in FEASST is a robust and reliable tool for studying CO 2 - n -alkane VLE.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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