Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
A Heat Transfer Textbook
3rd edition of the free electronic textbook by John H. Lienhard IV and John H. Lienhard V, PDF format.
http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html
Blackbody Radiation
Java applet for determining spectral or total radiation from a blackbody within a range of wavelength from Planck's Law.
http://eng.sdsu.edu/testhome/javaapplets/planckRadiation/index.html
Blackbody Radiation
Introduction to blackbody radiation from an astronomer's point of view.
http://www.egglescliffe.org.uk/physics/astronomy/blackbody/bbody.html
ChemPlant Tools
Includes a heat transfer program for the simulation of the heating and cooling of an agitated chemical reactor vessel.
http://www.kinematrix.com/engineering_software.html
Diffusion Processes
From Michael Karweit's Virtual Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, explore two-dimensional diffusion phenomena by configuring and running the Diffusion Simulator (Java applet).
http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/diffus/diff_txt.htm
Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow
Online book by Prof. Michael L. Corradini about multi-phase flow and heat transfer fundamentals.
http://wins.engr.wisc.edu/teaching/mpfBook/main.html
Glendoher Engineering
Online steam properties, jacketed vessel calculations, and condensate line sizing.
http://eng-calculations.com
Heat Conduction
From Michael Karweit's Virtual Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, Deduce the cross-sectional profile of a heated conductive bar based on its temperature (Java applet).
http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/conduct/conduct.htm
How We Lose Heat to the Environment
Hypothermia and the modes of heat transfer from the human body to the environment, online or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version.
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/hypocold.shtml
Infrared Radiation From Gases
Java applet for calculating the total and band radiation from a column of CO2, CO or H2O using the wide-band exponential model.
http://eng.sdsu.edu/testhome/javaapplets/bandRadiation/index.html