Understanding the composition of complex hydrocarbon mixtures is important for environmental studies in a variety of fields, but many prevalent compounds cannot be confidently identified using traditional gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) techniques. This work uses vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) ionization to elucidate the structures of a traditionally "unresolved complex mixture" by separ...

Abstract Current multi-component, multiphase pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann models have thermodynamic inconsistencies that prevent them to correctly predict the phase behavior of partially miscible multi-component fluids, such as hydrocarbon mixtures. This paper identifies these and attempts design a thermodynamically consistent model allows mass transfer across interfaces is capable typica...