The CO-LaN Management Board has organized the CAPE-OPEN 2007 European Meeting on March 8 and 9, 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany. The meeting took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

While these events were targeted mostly at the CO-LaN membership, non-member organizations were also welcome at the Showcase and Workshop: Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Linde, Michael Wulkow CiT, RHODIA, SASOL sent attendees. This event was attended by more than 60 participants including representatives from CO-LaN members such as AmsterCHEM, Aspentech, BASF, BP, Belsim, Cosmologic GmbH, DECHEMA e.V., DTU-IVCSEP, Halias Technologies, HTRI, IFP, Infochem Computer Services Ltd., INPT-ENSIACET, Invensys-SimSci, Kongsberg Maritime AS, Max Planck Institute - Magdeburg, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd., ProSim SA, Shell Global Solutions, SHMA Ltd., SINTEF, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, The Dow Chemical Company, TOTAL, TUV NEL Ltd., University of Trieste, US Environmental Protection Agency and Virtual Materials Group.

It comprised a short formal report on CO-LaN activities as well as an Interoperability Showcase and an Interoperability Workshop. The Showcase was made of a number of presentations showing recent developments in CAPE-OPEN technology implementation and usage. In the Workshop, developers of software involving CAPE-OPEN technology interacted to resolve any interoperability issues they had. The agenda was the following:

March 8, 2007

09:30 - 12:30 CAPE-OPEN Interoperability Showcase Session 1 jointly chaired by Methods&Tools and Interoperability Support SIGs

• 09:30 - 09:55 Methods&Tools and Interoperability Support SIGs highlights by B. Braunschweig, IFP and P. Banks, BP
• 09:55 - 10:20 ProSimPlus new CAPE-OPEN capabilities by A. Vacher, ProSim SA
• 10:20 - 10:45 PSE's Current and Future Support for CAPE-OPEN standards by T. Williams, Process Systems Enterprise

• 11:15 - 11:40 Interoperability experiments on MATLAB/Simulis Thermodynamics/COCO TEA via CAPE-OPEN standards by P. Floquet, INPT-ENSIACET
• 11:40 - 12:05 COLTT Production release by P. Banks, BP and M. Pons (Co-LaN)
• 12:05 - 12:30 Recent developments and implementations of CAPE-OPEN in .NET with demo by M. Parenzan, University of Trieste

14:00 - 18:00 CAPE-OPEN Interoperability Workshop Session 1

 Participants are indicated under each picture from left to right.

Pascal Roux (IFP) and Kjell Arne Jacobsen (SINTEF)	Werner Drewitz, Frank Güttner (both BASF), Richard Szczepanski (Infochem)	Martin Peter Breil (DTU-IVCSEP), Michel Pons (CO-LaN), Pierre Janin (Rhodia)
Standing: Andrew Vieler (Virtual Materials Group), Morten Hyllseth (Kongsberg Maritime AS). Sitting: Jasper van Baten (AmsterCHEM), Tom Williams (Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.), Tony Kiss (Akzo Nobel Chemicals		Andy Johns (TUV NEL) and Günter Stubbe (CiT)

18:00 - 19:00 SIG parallel sessions: Thermo, Unit, M&T, Refining Reactors, discussion on hydrodynamic models

19:30 - 22:00 Dinner
The 2006 CAPE-OPEN Award was presented to Jasper van Baten from AmsterCHEM.

March 9, 2007

• 08:30 - 08:45 Thermodynamic SIG highlights by W. Drewitz, BASF AG
• 08:45 - 09:10 PPDS CAPE-OPEN development - Present Status and Future Plans by A. Scott, TUV NEL
• 09:10 - 09:35 Thermo Wizard for the Implementation of in-house Property Packages by J.-C. de Heptinne, IFP
• 09:35 - 10:00 Experiences in interfacing the IK-CAPE Thermodynamic package to CAPE-OPEN by L. von Wedel, AixCAPE e.V.

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Interoperability Showcase session 2b chaired by the Unit SIG

• 10:30 - 10:45 Unit Operation SIG highlights by R. Baur, Shell Global Solutions
• 10:45 - 11:10 Remote operation of CAPE-OPEN compliant software by L. Testard, Halias Technologies
• 11:10 - 11:35 A CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation for the evaluation of Environmental Impact of a Chemical Process by L. Toma, University of Trieste (includes videos of slide 31, 1, 2, 3)
• 11:35 - 12:00 Transient Productivity Index Unit Operation by M. Gainville, IFP

13:00 - 13:30 Refining Reactor SIG by Ignasi Palou-Rivera, BP

• PRO/II PetroFractions prototype by David Jerome, SimSci-Esscor