At AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Annual Meeting 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio, Michel Pons presented a paper written together with Alain Vacher, IT manager at ProSim SA. In session 27 under area 10E02, the paper described how CAPE-OPEN technology, as applied in Simulis Thermodynamics (ProSim SA), provides easy access to rigorous thermodynamics within MATLAB. A live demo was made of an Aspen Plus Property Package used within MATLAB thanks to Simulis Thermodynamics acting as a CAPE-OPEN Thermo socket: flash calculations were performed on a binary mixture. The MATLAB m file used in this demo is made available.

Michel Pons participated in a round table devoted to the Smart Plant concept also within a session belonging to area 10e.

Steve Zitney made a presentation of the APECS framework used at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, WV. The APECS framework uses extensively CAPE-OPEN interfaces in order to plug FLUENT based equipment models within an Aspen Plus process flowsheet. Steve made a live demo where a process model built in Aspen Plus makes use of two detailed equipment models under Fluent, one within a recycle.