The COCO Simulator is a free-of-charge, non-commercial, graphical, modular and
CAPE-OPEN compliant, steady-state, sequential simulation
process modeling environment. It was originally intended as a test environment for CAPE-OPEN modeling tools but now provides free
chemical process simulation for students. It is an open flowsheet
modeling environment allowing anyone to add new
unit operations or
thermodynamics packages.
The COCO Simulator uses a graphical representation, the
Process Flow Diagram (PFD), for defining the process to be simulated. Clicking on a
unit operation with the mouse allows the user to edit the unit operation parameters it defines via the CAPE-OPEN standard or to open the unit operation's own user interface, when available. This interoperability of process modeling software was enabled by the advent of the CAPE-OPEN standard. COCO thermodynamic library "TEA" and its
chemical compound data bank are based on ChemSep
[{{cite book, author1=Perry, Robert H. , author2=Green, Don W., title= Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, edition=7th, publisher=McGraw-Hill, year=1997, isbn=0-07-049841-5 p. 13-53] LITE, a free equilibrium column simulator for
distillation columns and
liquid-liquid extractors. COCO's thermodynamic library exports more than 100 property calculation methods with their analytical or numerical derivatives. COCO includes a LITE version of COSMOtherm, an activity coefficient model based on
Ab initio quantum chemistry methods. The simulator entails a set of unit-operations such as stream splitters/mixers,
heat-exchangers,
compressors,
pumps and
reactors. COCO features a
reaction numerics package to power its simple conversion, equilibrium,
CSTR, Gibbs minimization and
plug flow reactor models.
See also
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Process design (chemical engineering)
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List of Chemical Process Simulators
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Thermodynamic and thermophysical data
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Standard temperature and pressure
Standard temperature and pressure (STP) are standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements to be established to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data. The most used standards are those of the International Union o ...
References
External links
Homepage of the COCO SimulatorCO-LaN
- the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network is a neutral industry and academic association promoting open interface standards in process simulation software. CO-LaN members are committed to making Computer Aided Process Engineering easier, faster and less expensive by achieving complete interoperability of compliant commercial CAPE software tools. CO-LaN supports and maintains the CAPE-OPEN interface standards.
Chemical engineering software