CoolProp is a thermophysical property database and wrappers for a selection of programming environments. It offers similar functionality to REFPROP, but CoolProp is open-source and free, It was originally developed by Ian Bell, currently a post-doc at the University of Liege, in Liege, Belgium.
- CoolProp has flexible licensing terms: Commercial - ok! Academic? - ok!
- You can get the development binaries for each platform at http://www.coolprop.dreamhosters.com:8010/binaries/.
- For Python, you can get latest stable version via pip install coolprop
- The development docs for the v5 release are at http://www.coolprop.dreamhosters.com:8010/sphinx/
- Travis CI helps us to keep track of integration issues
- Please, if there are any issues of any kind, file an issue at https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/issues
- Also, check out our FAQ: https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/blob/master/FAQ.md