Cavity potential

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The experimentally fitted hydrate guest Kihara parameters in the cavity potential uj (r) of Equation 5.25 are not the same as those found from second virial coefficients or viscosity data for several reasons, two of which are listed here. First, the Kihara potential itself does not adequately fit pure water virials over a wide range of temperature and pressure, and thus will not be adequate for water-hydrocarbon mixtures. Second, with the spherical Lennard-Jones-Devonshire theory the point-wise potential of water molecules is smeared to yield an averaged spherical shell potential, which causes the water parameters to become indistinct. As a result, the Kihara parameters for the guest within the cavity are fitted to hydrate formation properties for each component. 

Figure 5.2 Typical spherically symmetrical cavity potential function between guest and cell. (Reproduced from McKoy, V., Sinanoglu, O., J. Chem. Phys38, 2946 (1963). With permission from the American Institute of Physics.)...

FIGURE 3.11 Schematic representation of the corpuscular-undulatory semi-classical quantification based on the interferential between the direct and reflected wave on an arbitrary point P inside of a cavity (potential) with a given width (see the text for details). 

Ogg went one step further. He reasoned that since the electrons are paired in the cavity, they follow the Bose-Einstein statistics at condensation, as earlier discussed by F. London for superfluidity. However, the idea of cavities with two electrons turned out to be unrealistic. Quantum chemical calculations, where the two electrons were assumed to move in a flat cavity potential with steep walls, show that the electron pair has a positive energy compared to the background and therefore is... 

The main problem with implementing the cell theory is that it derives the hydrate pressures in terms of quantities that are not well known. In particular, the intermolecular potentials needed to define the cavity potential are not precisely known, and depends on the property of a state that has never been observed (Le, the empty hydrate lattice). Inevitably, this means that a considerable amount of empirical parameterisation is required to implement the theory. 

The cavity potential U is usually built up from the intermolecular potentials V using the Kihara model... 

Strictly, the cavity potential is the net effect of many such interactions between a guest and its surrounding water molecules. However, a simplified description can be obtained by assuming that the water molecules combine to form a spherical cavity. In this case, if z water molecules form the wall of a spherical cavity of radius R, then the cavity potential is [20]... 

Thus two further parameters, z and / , are needed to specify the cavity potential. 

The second implication is more fundamental, in that it indicates that there is room for improvement in either the theory or the way it is implemented. The problem here is that the parameters mentioned above all have well defined physical meanings is the size of a cavity, and is the size of a guest molecule. If these quantities are not well defined, then it suggests that the problem has been oversimplified in some way, and that the variations in the values adopted by the different parameters are compensating for these simplifications. Of course, one oversimplification is easy to spot the cavity potential outlined in Section 3.2 is clearly approximate. It is for this reason that a lot of effort has been expended in trying to improve the description of the guest-cavity interactions [24-27]. The risk is that other less obvious problems may also exist and are simply being hidden in attempts to re-parameterise the theory. It is for this reason that the fundamental approximations behind the theory itself need to be examined. 

The question that now arises is where the problem lies when the theory does not reproduce the experiments. Is it only the cavity potential, or is it also the model assumptions From the above scheme it is clear that comparison with experiments can never separate these two effects, and so may lead one to continue developing more and more sophisticated models of the cavity potential when a reassessment of the model assumptions would be more appropriate. 

Table 6. Thermally averaged cavity potentials for small cavities in a type I hydrate...

The different temperatures refer to the temperature at which the thermally averaged cavity potential was obtained, and not to the temperature at which the Langmuir constant was calculated... 

Hence both the CRDF and cavity potential calculations give a consistent physical picture. At higher temperatures, the thermal vibrations of the host lattice are more vigorous, which results in a broadening of the cavity walls and an effective reduction in the size of the cavity itself. 

Figure 5 Cavity potential of mean force kT ln[e / / AA(r)l in kcal mol for two hard sphere model methane molecules in water ...

The problem was later taken up by Pierotti who calculated the cavity term by scaled particle theory and the G-, term with a Lennard-Jones potential between the solute and all the waters taken as a uniform distribution. These were calculated for small molecule gases in several liquids including water. The results were compared with experimental Henry s law constants. An expression of Henry s law in terms of a cavity potential Gc was used ... 

In the treatment of solubility and solvent effects, the chemical potential of introducing a molecule into a fixed position in a solvent may be broken down into a cavity potential term and an interaction potential term. Scaled particle theory can be used to calculate the cavity potential term. The interaction potential between solute and solvent can be calculated separately by some other means. ... 

Scaled particle theory has also been used to understand and analyze surface areas, surface tension, and curvature as they relate to solubility and hydrophobic interactions. The accessible surface of an arbitrary hard sphere solute is the same as the surface of its cavity of radius r. Cavity potentials of nonspherical molecules have been related to those of spherical cavities of the same area. The relationship between accessible surface area, molecular surface area, and curvature has been examined. 

In addition to the electrostatic and short-term interaction potential (and a negligible cavity potential), the ions i andy interact via a so-called... 

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