# Julia to ASPEN

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191 "2017-06-09T22:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kavitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@Kavitha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Kavitha)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191/1 "2017-06-09T22:19:36Z")

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Hello,

I am totally new to Julia. I would like to know if it’s possible to link Aspen Plus to Julia, Is it possible? Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![dpsanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dpsanders/32/3573_2.png) [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191/2 "2017-06-10T00:08:49Z")

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If you can call it from C, C++ or Python, then you can call it from Julia.

It is possible or probable that nobody here knows what Aspen plus is, though, so you might want to give more info.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191/3 "2017-06-10T00:11:30Z")

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There appears to be some COM (OLE) integration available, so that would probably be the approach to try:

> **[Running Aspen via Python](https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2013/06/14/Running-Aspen-via-Python/)**
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> Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Python’s COM support could be used via PyCall.jl with minimal overhead.

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**Author:** ![Kavitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@Kavitha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Kavitha)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191/4 "2017-06-13T15:47:48Z")

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Thank you so much. I would try to work this out for Julia in similar manner.

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**Author:** ![Kavitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@Kavitha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Kavitha)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-to-aspen/4191/5 "2017-06-13T15:47:52Z")

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. Thank you!  
Aspen is a process modeling tool that simulates industrial processes, I wanted to develop the model for a reactor using Julia and then link it to the process flow sheet.