IDAES-PSE 1.6.0 June 2020 Release

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1.6.0 Release Highlights

Major documentation reorganization
Flowsheet visualization improvements
Support for explicitly defining units of measurement in IDAES models with validation and automatic unit conversion
New Phase and Component objects for defining materials when creating property packages
Improved interface for constructing StateBlocks and ReactionBlocks
Generic Property Framework:
- Cubic equations of state
- Extended interface to include reaction properties
- More state variable definitions
- Support for elemental composition and element balances
- Numerous bug fixes and improvements
Support for inert species in Gibbs reactors
Improved support for systems with non-condensable and/or non-vaporizable components
Surrogate modeling improvements:
- A new General Surrogate Interface
- A new Python-based Surrogate Modelling Objects toolbox: PySMO
A new tool for nanomaterials design using Mathematical Optimization: MatOpt
A new framework for (ideal) NMPC: Caprese
Testing categorization improvements
"Version aware" improvements to idaes get-examples sub-command