Welcome to CoolProp

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, at the time a post-doc at the University of Liege, in Liege, Belgium.

• CoolProp has flexible licensing terms: Commercial - ok! Academic? - ok! |ghlicense|

• For Python, get the latest release via pip install coolprop |pypidownloads| |pypiversion|

• ... other binaries are available from SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolprop/files>_ |sfdownloads| |ghversion|

• There is also a bleeding edge nightly build of the development version <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolprop/files/CoolProp/nightly>_ .

• The documentation is available for the latest release <http://www.coolprop.org>_ and the development version <http://www.coolprop.org/dev>_

• For any kind of question regarding CoolProp and its usage, you can ask the CoolProp user group <https://goo.gl/Pa7FBT>_

• ... you might also find answers in our FAQ <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/blob/master/FAQ.md>_

• If you found a bug or have an issue that requires the developers to become active, please file an issue in our issue tracker <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/issues>_

• Contributions <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md>_ to this project are welcomed and encouraged! If you wish to contribute <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md>_ bug fixes, patches, or new features, wrappers, or material properties, please submit a Pull Request with your code.

• If you are new to Git and Github, please see the CoolProp Wiki <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/wiki>_ for guidance on becoming a contributor to the project.

• Accelerate development of things you really need implemented by posting at Bountysource <https://www.bountysource.com/teams/coolprop>_

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