COCO simulator software

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COCO (CAPE-OPEN to CAPE-OPEN) is a free-of-charge CAPE-OPEN compliant steady-state simulation environment. It consist of the following components:

COFE (CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Environment), an intuitive graphical user interface to chemical flowsheeting. It has sequential solution algorithm using automatic tear streams. Properties of streams, deals with unit-conversion and provides plotting facilities can be displayed wih COFE.

TEA (COCO’s Thermodynamics for Engineering Applications). This component 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.

COUSCOUS (CAPE-OPEN Unit-operations Simple). This package which 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 10 components and 150 stages, can serve as an equilibrium distillation unit operation in COCO.

CORN (CAPE-OPEN Reaction Numerics). This package 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.