How to call COCO themo in Scilab

[arvind.prasad]

I would like to know how to call COCO thermo in Scilab. I have developed a Scilab program for dynamic simulation of batch distillation. I would now like to use the thermodynamics package of COCO in the program to calculate the Vapor Liquid Equilibrium concentration. Is anyone working in this area??

[jasper]

If you want to do it from within the context of a unit operation (for which the equations are written in Scilab), you can use

http://amsterchem.com/scilabunitop.html

If you just want to access CAPE-OPEN based thermodynamics from within Scilab (e.g. TEA, or any other CAPE-OPEN compliant thermo), you can use

http://amsterchem.com/scilabthermo.html

[colancto]

Arvind,

have you been successful in using COCO Thermo (TEA) within Scilab for modelling a batch distillation unit? Such a unit operation is consuming quite a lot of thermo functions, maybe also derivatives of thermo functions. There was a presentation at the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting by a software vendor (ProSim SA) discussing the use of CAPE-OPEN thermodynamics in their batch distillation software. You may want to take a look.