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It is important to understand the thermophysical properties and structure of the molten salt as heat transfer medium for the supercritical CO2 power generation. Molecular dynamics simulation was used in this paper to study the structure and properties of the novel 0.259KNO(2)-0.687KNO(3)-0.054K(2)CO(3) molten salt, including radial distribution function, coordination number, angular distribution function, self-diffusion coefficient, density, thermal conductivity, viscosity and heat capacity. The intra-molecular potential parameters of KNO2 and K2CO3 were calculated during the simulation, and the satisfactory accuracy at high temperature for the complex mixed molten salts was verified. The relation between the microstructure and physical properties of the specific molten salts was discussed. The computed values for density, thermal conductivity, and specific heat closely match the experimental data. The results show that with the increase of temperature, the thermal conductivity, the density and viscosity all decreases, the distance of ion clusters and the self-diffusion coefficient increases but the configuration of K+-NO3- hardly changes. The results of radial distribution function, coordination number and angular distribution function show that the K2CO3 component of ternary salt weakens the interaction of K+-NO3- and enhances the interaction of K+-NO2- and K+-CO23-. It is also further indicated that the addition of K2CO3 can reduced the K+-K+ distance and diffusion coefficient in nitrate. The instability of NO2--K+-NO2- configuration results in the large diffusion coefficient of NO2- in the ternary molten salt system.
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SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
ISSN: 0927-0248
Year: 2024
Volume: 277
6 . 9 0 0
JCR@2022
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