The organization committee for the AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting included the 6th CAPE-OPEN US Conference as a Topical Conference within the main event. CO-LaN Management Board chose to organize the 6th CAPE-OPEN US Conference as one paper session.

Topical Conference T2 (6th CAPE-OPEN US Conference) took place on Nov 11, 2009 (3:15 PM - 5:45 PM) in Nashville, Tennessee. It was chaired by Ignasi Palou-Rivera (BP), Joe Holmes (HTRI) and Peyton Richmond (Lamar University). The program was the following:

• Paper 444a: "CO-LaN actions in 2009 and perspectives for 2010" by Ray Dickinson, Ignasi Palou-Rivera and Michel Pons
• Paper 444b: "Deployment of a gPROMS-based three-phase reactor unit operation within PRO/II flowsheets through CAPE-OPEN interfaces" by Pierre Duchet-Suchaux, Sabine Savin, Alejandro Cano, Thomas H. Williams, Rodrigo Blanco, David H. Jerome and Krishna Penukonda
• Paper 444c: "CAPE-OPEN compliant Better Optimization of Non-linear Uncertain Systems (BONUS) capability for large scale systems" by Juan M. Salazar and Urmila Diwekar
• Paper 444d: "Design and quick prototyping of Unit Operation models using generic engineering tools and CAPE-OPEN" by Jasper M. van Baten (presented by Michel Pons)
• Paper 444e: "CAPE-OPEN interfaces in COMSOL Multiphysics version 4" by Heinrik von Schenck, Gunnar Andersson, Jasper M. van Baten and Ed Fontes
• Paper 444f: "Use of Flowsheet Monitoring to perform environmental evaluation of chemical process flowsheets" by William M. Barrett Jr. and Jasper M. van Baten
• Paper 444g: "Logging tools to help you" by Malcolm Woodman, Michael Halloran and Michel Pons