First of all, to Jasper and collegues: great job! Some time ago I already ran into COCO, but did not actually use it. The past few weeks I started to exploring COCO, and... I'm really impressed! Especially by the flowsheet in flowsheet and Excel UOP possibilities. A question regarding the use of solids in a simulation. You have defined some in solids.pcd. I like to use solids in a simulation, e.g. to simulate the burning of wood. I did succeed in importing gas and liquid compounds, defined a property package, and used that in a simulation. I have to explore the property methods, but so far so good.
When I try add a solid compound - let's take iron- , some warnings show, and I am unable to add the solid data to the property package.
The warnings are :
* No data for Antoine Equation for liquid vapor pressure,
* No data for temperature correlationfor pure liquid surface tension, and
* No data for Hankinson and Thompsonfor liquid density
I guess I won't need these data for the simualtion, or should I enter a dummy value? Which compound constants and temperature correlation data are needed to use a solid compound in a simulation? Relating to using solids: is it possible to define and use a solid gas reaction: eg the C(s) + O2(g) => CO2 (g) in the fixed conversion reactor?
A small issue I ran into: when using a flowsheet as a UOP, I defined external parameters to be used at a higher level. I seems that the parameter name instead of the exported name is exported. Not a big issue, but convenient if more UOP's of the same types are used.
kind regards
Henk Fikkert