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

Table 4

Interaction energies of different pairs at 298 K.

Molecules	Interaction energy (kJ/·mol^−1)
Asphaltene-asphaltene	−1370.26
Asphaltene-resin	−1797.04
Asphaltene-aromatic	−1218.74
Asphaltene-saturate	−838.53
Asphaltene-hexadecane	−685.14
Resin-resin	−1138.31
Resin-aromatic	−2548.61
Resin-saturate	−529.24
Resin-hexadecane	−336.19
Aromatic-aromatic	−1469.36
Aromatic-saturate	−1811.14
Aromatic-hexadecane	−1956.46
Saturate-saturate	−1590.72
Saturate-hexadecane	−597.59
Hexadecane-hexadecane	−961.38