Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook

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Summary: The 7th edition of the chem engineers' classic reference.
Review: "Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th Edition)- 1999 Version on CD ROM" by Robert H. Perry and Don W. Green - Published by McGraw-Hill Company

Perry's on CD is the most recent advance in this respected series of handbook editions that dates back to the 1930s. The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers have relied upon various editions of the print copy over the past forty years. The portability and ease of searching for, finding, and copying material from this CD version will be widely appreciated. For the uninitiated, the explanations and data presented are a great help to engineers, scientists, students and others who seek to turn ideas into reality about energy and materials and their transfers and transformations.

The CD uses Adobe Acrobat format. This allows rapid printing of paper copies of individual pages of the Handbook. Essentially all Windows-type and Macintosh computers and the widely-used printers, produced over the last several years can handle the reading and printing. We did discover that an HP Laserjet III printer linked to a '91 computer using Windows 95, and with an Intel 486 CPU having a 100 mHz upgrade, could not manage the printing. We then tried a similarly aged computer, with only 16 meg of RAM, but linked to a late '92 HP Injet printer. That low-power system did a fine job of reading and printing.

Following the booklet supplied, the NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers were able to make valuable use of figures and tables from the one hundred formatted as "Active Objects". The CD uses ACTIV8 © to enable them. We were able to make custom tables of materials' properties. As an example, we copied an "Active" table to the Clipboard. Then we pasted the data directly into an EXCEL™ worksheet. In the worksheet we easily deleted and added cells and titling to suit. A special feature with some of the "Active" tables is an interpolation capability. For example, where table data as temperatures was given in 10 degree intervals, we could input any value within an interval and get the appropriate property value.

With "Active" figures that are graphs you can magnify areas of interest. Then by placing the mouse pointer cross-hairs anywhere on the graph, you can read the exact x and y coordinates in a window. If you click on several points, the data is saved in a table.

Laptop, and other travelling users, will especially appreciate the utility of a single CD that covers the entire contents of the six-pound print copy of this engineering classic. The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers found the McGraw-Hill Technical Help Desk knowledgeable and easy to contact.

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Summary: Bible of Chemical Engineers- PARRY' HAND BOOK
Review: A COMREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION ON PROCESS &CHEMICAL ENGINEERING APART FROM OTHER RELEVANT ENGINEERING DATA WHICH MAKES IT REALLY BIBLE OF PROCSS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

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Summary: Bible of Chemical Engineers- PARRY' HAND BOOK
Review: A COMREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION ON PROCESS &CHEMICAL ENGINEERING APART FROM OTHER RELEVANT ENGINEERING DATA WHICH MAKES IT REALLY BIBLE OF PROCSS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

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Summary: A must for a Chemical Engineer
Review: A great assortment of theory and practical data, this book is a must for all chemical engineers. This book provides at ones desk all the information one needs. The use of the book in the beginning is difficult but once learned, it serves as a powerful tool. I have not seen any other reference book as complete and practical oriented with an answer to the needs of the Chemical Engineer as this one.

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Summary: The Chemical Engineers' Bible
Review: A very complete review of Chemical Engineering topics, an useful and indispensable book.

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Summary: An indispensible engineer's reference
Review: All the tables and charts you remember from college, and lots of refresher material you've since forgot!

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Summary: chemical handbook
Review: chemical engineering chemical technolog

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Summary: everything a ChE could want and more
Review: From steam tables to fracture mechanics, this book has everything from constants to theory. A must for any student or practicing engineer.

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Summary: bible for chemical engineers.
Review: I am student of 2nd year chemical engineering student.I feel that this book is bible for chemical engineers.I have a subject "fluid mechanics" and this book have cleared all doubts and problems related to the subject , which the other books did not solved.

I think every chemical engineer must buy this book.

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Summary: Excellent database compiled at one place for easy reference
Review: I have specific comments on page 6-44 on Water Hammer as follows. 1) Where can i get liquid bulk modulus of elasticity for other fluid say LPG. 2) In example 10 while establishing "a" pressure wave velocity the unit of liquid bulk modulus of elasticity & liquid density do not match. One is in pascals while other in Kg/M3. Regards VMSHETH