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

* CoolProp has flexible licensing terms: Commercial - ok! Academic? - ok! |license|

* For Python, you can get the latest release via ``pip install coolprop``. Currently |downloads| of |version|  

* ... other binaries can be downloaded here: `latest release <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolprop/files>`_ and `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>`_  

* Please, if there are any issues of any kind, file an issue `here <https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/issues>`_ 

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



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