Welcome to REFPROP CAPE-OPEN. This program provides a CAPE-OPEN versions 1.0 and 1.1 interface to NIST's REFPROP application. For this program to work, a separate installation of NIST's REFPROP version 8 or later must be present on your system. For more information about REFPROP, see the NIST web site.
CAPE-OPEN is an open standard for interoperability of chemical process engineering applications. CAPE is an acronym for Computer Aided Process Engineering. The CAPE-OPEN standards are freely available from the CAPE-OPEN Laboratory Networks.
CAPE-OPEN defines standards for interaction of many types of process engineering software components; this implementation uses the Thermodynamic and Physical Property standard description versions 1.0 and 1.1 to allow CAPE-OPEN compliant applications to use REFPROP for their thermodynamic calculations. Such programs can be flowsheet simulation applications (for example COCO), or any other type of application that requires thermodynamic and physical property calculations or thermodynamic phase equilibrium calculations. One could for example use CAPE-OPEN to import thermodynamic calculations into Matlab (see Matlab CAPE-OPEN Thermo Import).
The REFPROP CAPE-OPEN application has been written by Jasper van Baten, AmsterCHEM (C) 2021.
REFPROP CAPE-OPEN requires a separate installation and license of REFPROP.
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