The 8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering hosted the 7th CAPE-OPEN European Conference that marked the 10th anniversary of CO-LaN. CO-LaN was also acting as a sponsor of the conference. The 8th ECCE was held from September 25 till 29, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

The 7th CAPE-OPEN European Conference was made of two parts, one in the official program and one outside the official program of ECCE-8.

Within the official program, one session of the "CAPE simulation and control" track featured four presentations directly related to CAPE-OPEN. This session, well attended by 50+ people, was held on Tuesday September 27 from 4 pm till 6 pm in Salon 21 (Lilienthal) and was chaired by CO-LaN Chief Technology Officer:

• 4:00 - 4:30: "Development of a CAPE-OPEN compatible library for thermodynamic models and unit operations using .NET" by B. MARIBO-MOGENSEN, G.M. KONTOGEORGIS, K. THOMSEN, Technical University of Denmark
• 4:30 - 5:00: "Advances on CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation interfaces" by R. BAUR (Shell Global Solutions International, J. van BATEN (AmsterCHEM), M. PONS (CO-LaN) (PDF, SWF)
• 5:00 - 5:30: "Proposal for a new CAPE-OPEN Object Model" by J. van BATEN (AmsterCHEM), M. PONS (CO-LaN), W. BARRETT (US EPA)
• 5:30 - 6:00: "Prototyping of CAPE-OPEN hydrodynamic interface design proposal" by M. GAINVILLE, G. FERRER, P. ROUX (IFP Energies Nouvelles) (PDF).

On September 28, 2011 in Room 36/37, CO-LaN held its Annual General Meeting of Members, further presentations about SIG activities were given and the CAPE-OPEN Award for 2010 was presented to Bertrand Braunschweig.

• 4:30 - 5:00 "Reflecting on 10 years of CO-LaN" (Abstract, Poster, Presentation as PDF) by Malcolm WOODMAN (BP)
• 4:00 - 4:30 CO-LaN Annual General Meeting
  • Reports from the President and the Treasurer, Board elections
  • CAPE-Award 2010
• 5:00 - 5:30 "Thermo SIG Progress report 2010 and future outlook" (Abstract, Poster, Presentation as PDF or as SWF) by Sergej BLAGOV (BASF SE), Jasper van BATEN (AmsterCHEM) and Michel PONS (CO-LaN)
• 5:30 - 5:45 "UNIG SIG report" by Richard BAUR, Shell
• 5:45 - 6:00 "Hydrodynamic SIG report" by Martin GAINVILLE, IFP New Energy

The UNIT SIG meeting took place on Tuesday September 27 and the Thermo SIG meeting was held on Wednesday September 28.

On September 29 a keynote lecture was given by Jasper van BATEN (AmsterCHEM) as co-author with Bill BARRETT from US EPA of a work mixing sustainability metrics and CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Monitoring. You can find the corresponding PDF here.