Investigating the Compatibility of Various Components in Marine Low-Sulfur Fuel Oil by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Figure 3

Illustration of low-sulfur fuel oil molecular structures at 298 K (asphaltene: green, resin: orange, aromatic: blue, saturate: yellow, and hexadecane: pink). (a) Initial configuration. (b) Equilibrium configuration after 1 ns simulation.

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