Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box, 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abstract
We have carried out molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques to study the diffusion coefficient of interlayer molecules at different temperature. We have focused on the translation dynamics of water in bihydrated states within the context of water dynamics in clays. We concentrated on temperatures between 293 and 350 K, i.e., the range important to daily life wastewater handling. A natural clay has been modified as a synthetic clay called fluorohectorite clay, and the properties are studied using MD simulations, the result of which allows us to understand the determining parameters through a comparison with experiment values. The activation energyis determined by our simulation to be between [0.09−0.17] eV per particle. The calculated diffusion constants are in the order of 10−5 cm2s−1. The simulation results are in a good agreement with experiments for the relevant set of conditions, and give insight into the origin of the observed dynamics.
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