The CAPE-OPEN 2025 Annual Meeting was held on October 30-31, 2025 in Ghent, Belgium. The event continued the tradition of providing valuable insights into CAPE-OPEN, its applications, and its ongoing development.
Presentations
All presentations will be uploaded below as soon as possible.
Day 1 | 30 October 2025
09:20 Cross-ecosystem and eventual interoperability – enabling interoperability across standards | Prof. Pieter Colpaert, IDLab–imec, UGent
10:30 PR1ME: a simulation framework for hydroprocessing | César Pernalete Piña, LCT UGent | Read more.
11:00 Leveraging CAPE-OPEN for enhanced multiphase pump design and process simulation | Valentin Caries, IFP Energies nouvelles | Read more.
11:30 Updates on DEXPI Standards | Dr. Gregor Tolksdorf, EVONIK | Read more.
12:00 Development of a standalone thermodynamic property package for the simulation of flue gases with COBIA | Dimitrios Sykas, University of Strathclyde | Read more.
13:30 THERMO SIG progress report | Sergej Blagov, BASF
14:00 INTEROP SIG progress report and update on the CAPE OPEN Test Suite | Malcolm Woodman, MR Woodman Consulting
14:45 Process Modelling: An End-User’s perspective using COCO | Nate Amato, University of Cape Town | Read more.
15:30 DRI-shaft furnace model using CAPE-OPEN | Klaus Moller, University of Cape Town
16:00 Language bindings for COBIA | Jasper van Baten, AmsterCHEM | Read more.
16:30 Methods & Tools SIG progress report | Bill Barrett, US EPA
Day 2 | 31 October 2025
10:20 UNIT SIG Progress Report | Krishna Murthy Penukonda, AVEVA | Read more.
11:00 Common Source CAPE-OPEN documentation updates | Kyle Abrahams, CO-LaN, University of Cape Town
11:20 Cape Open: The Big Picture | M&T SIG
11:35 Persistence Common Interface Discussion | M&T SIG
Programme
Please note that this programme is subject to change, and CO-LaN reserves the right to amend the agenda if necessary.