What is COCO?
COCO (CAPE-OPEN to CAPE-OPEN) is a free-of-charge CAPE-OPEN compliant steady-state simulation environment
consisting of the following components:
COFE - the CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Environment is an intuitive graphical user interface
to chemical flowsheeting. COFE has sequential solution
algorithm using automatic tear streams. COFE displays properties of streams,
deals with unit-conversion and provides plotting facilities.
COFE flowsheets can be used as CAPE-OPEN unit operations; so you can use COFE Flowsheets as unit operation inside COFE (flowsheets in flowsheets) or inside other simulators.
COFE flowsheets can be used as CAPE-OPEN unit operations; so you can use COFE Flowsheets as unit operation inside COFE (flowsheets in flowsheets) or inside other simulators.
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 430 commonly used chemicals. The package exhibits more
than 100 property calculation methods with their analytical or numerical derivatives.
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 40 compounds and 300 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.
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.
COCO Utilities and add-ins:
The following utilities and add-ins are part of the
COCO distribution:
CORK - the CAPE-OPEN Registry Kit. Inspection of CAPE-OPEN registry CAT-IDs and component registration.
OATS - the Out-of-proc Application Thermo Server. Allows for running inproc 32-bit physical property packages
from an out-of-proc server, which in turn can be used in 64-bit client applications. Also includes extensive
logging of CAPE-OPEN communication between simulation environment and client models. Includes COULIS, the CAPE-OPEN
Unit Operation Logger.
COFE.xlt - a Microsoft ExcelTM spread-sheet template designed to include a COFE document in an Excel workbook. This
allows for accessing stream and unit operation data of a flowsheet, as well as performing thermodynamic and physical property
calculations in Excel.
JUIcE - Just a Unit-operation Icon Editor. For creation and maintenance of unit operation icons used with COFE.
TERNYP - TERNarY Plugin. Creation of phase diagrams, property plots and residue curves of ternary systems.
ConfigureTEA - a utility application to configure and maintain TEA property packages.
ConfigureCORN - a utility application to configure and maintain CORN reaction packages.
Online help - extensive online documentation; also available from here.
COFEStand - Stand-alone command line utility for solving COFE flowsheets.
CUP - COCO UPdate. Performs online updates for all packages included in COCO.
System requirements: Windows XP or higher.
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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.
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