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COCO |
COCO (CAPE-OPEN to CAPE-OPEN) is a CAPE-OPEN compliant simulation environment consisting of the following components:
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COFE - the CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Environment is an intuitive graphical user interface to flow-sheeting. COFE has a solution by tearing algorithm, displays properties of streams, deals with unit-conversion and provides plotting facilities. |
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TEA - COCO's Thermodynamics for Engineering Applications, is based on the code of the thermodynamic library of ChemSep and includes a data bank of over 150 commonly used chemicals. The package exhibits more than 100 property calculation methods with their analytical or numerical derivatives. |
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COUSCOUS - the CAPE-OPEN Unit-operations Simple package is shipped with COCO. It contains a splitter, a mixer, heat-exchangers, pumps and reactors amongst other unit operations. ChemSep-LITE, a limited version of ChemSep with a maximum of 5 components and 50 stages, can serve as an equilibrium distillation unit operation in COCO. A full version of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium column simulator can be obtained at http://www.chemsep.com/. ChemSep-LITE is included in the COCO installation. |
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CORN - the CAPE-OPEN Reaction Numerics package that comes with COCO facilitates specifying any kind of kinetic or equilibrium reaction. Simple reactor units, like conversion reactors, CSTRs and plug flow reactors that can use the CORN package come with the COUSCOUS package. |
CAPE-OPEN award 2006
COCO has been awarded the CO-LaN CAPE-OPEN award for the year 2006 for advances in CAPE-OPEN development. For a larger image of the award itself, click on the image below. The CAPE-OPEN award was presented by Ray Dickinson (Shell Global Solutions, president of the CO-LaN orgnization in 2007).
Availability
COCO is mainained by AmsterCHEM; however, COCO is free for download and free for use. COCO is available from http://www.cocosimulator.org/.
Technical support
AmsterCHEM can provide you with technical support for COCO, ranging from instruction, problem solving, debugging to development of custom components and extensions. For more information, please contact us.