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Chemical engineering general references and search engines

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Instructions to access library resources from off campus (then insert https://horizon.clarkson.edu/login?url= before the URL in a link)

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Design strategy

Flow Diagrams (Block diagrams, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams)

On-line sources available through Clarkson. Most are searchable.

· Clarkson catalog

· Clarkson interlibrary loan

· Engineering Village Ei link (The best search engine for technical papers, patents, websites, other data bases.)

· Clarkson journals and magazines on line (does not include those available as hard copies in the library)

· Clarkson's Complete Journal List (includes many more -- the most comprehensive list)

· Clarkson library searchable databases; Login from off campus

· Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC)

· Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (after searching, click on Section Text in HTML). Hard copy also available in the library (Ref 660.3 E56e3).

· Knovel handbooks and books (Also available through the AIChE.) Excellent on-line source of all sorts of information. A few examples:

• Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (8th Edition)
• Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th Edition)
• Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants (2007 texbook)
• Walas's Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design (See particularly the Rules of Thumb in the Front Matter section.)
• Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th Edition)
• Refining Processes Handbook Descriptions of all oil refinery operations including process flow diagrams
• Chemical Process and Design Handbook
• Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology - Fermentation, Biocatalysis, and Bioseparation
• Fermentation and Biochemical Engineering Handbook - Principles, Process Design, and Equipment
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia
• Biotechnological Innovations in Chemical Synthesis
• Separation and Purification Techniques in Biotechnology

· CRC Press Engineering Electronic Library

· Search at the above site for “Albright’s Chemical Engineering Handbook” for a competitor to Perry’s handbook.

· Wilson Web search engine

· Chemical Week (Search to find articles about particular chemicals, such as manufacturers, production rates, prices)

· Chemistry and Industry (Click on one issue, and then Find to search for news about particular chemicals from many sources).

· ICIS Chemical Business (formerly Chemical Market Reporter); Click on one issue, and then Find to search for news about particular chemicals from many sources)

· Hydrocarbon Processing (mostly news items, but also process engineering advice, marketing information and costs; figures not provided in online version)

· Oil & Gas Journal (search for news about oil refining, petrochemical and biofuel manufacturing, including plant costs and chemical prices)

· Chemical Engineering (get ID & PW from instructor; news, design methods, process engineering, cost indices); Previous issues (without equations or figures); TP1.C3

· Chemical Engineering Progress (also available online via the AIChE; latest issue in the library at TP155.A55)

· Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development

· Industrial & Engineering Research

· Encyclopedic Dictionary of Named Processes in Chemical Technology

Other on-line sources

· Chemical Processing

· MIT Open Courseware

· ICIS Chemical Business (formerly Chemical Market Reporter); Student site (many useful links, including prices of many chemicals about one year ago)

· Directory of on-line resources & papers for chemical engineers

· Patent information

· US Patent and Tradmark Office (find patent by topic, number, inventor, company, etc.)

· Department of Energy (reports, data, software, etc.)

· On-line engineering calculators Reynolds number, pipe friction, unit conversion, beams (strength of materials), flowmeters, radiation, etc.

Excellent references at Clarkson’s library

· “McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology": Ref 503 M147e7

· "Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry": Ref 660.0321 U41e5

· “Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design": Ref 660.28 E56c. 68 volumes plus 2002 supplement.

· “Handbook of Petrochemicals Production Processes,” edited by Robert A. Meyers (McGraw-Hill, NY, 2005) 665.538 H236

· "Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry": Ref 66 R554h9

· “Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers,” 2^nd edition, Carl Branan, editor. Gulf Publishing Company (1998), 660 R935

· “Handbook of Petrochemicals Production Processes,” Robert A. Meyers, editor, McGraw-Hill (2005), 665.538 H236. Manufacturing methods for common petrochemicals written by experts. Includes economic data that are otherwise very difficult to obtain.

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Last updated November 28, 2009. Comments and corrections should be sent to Professor William R. Wilcox

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