Author(s): Nicholas P. Chopey
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Bottom Line: The best
problem-solving reference specific to chemical engineering ever assembled. Some
people do, and will continue to, use this book more than "Perry's Chemical Engineers'
Handbook". Authoritive, concise, applicable, and valuable...everything a book
should be!
Author(s): The late
Robert H. Perry and Don W. Green (Editors)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Bottom Line: With the introduction
of the Platinum Edition, the book that chemical engineers have referred to time and time
again has improved itself once more. Now you can have a paper copy in the office and
a very good, complete version on you laptop or desktop computer.
Author(s): Ernest E. Ludwig
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann / Gulf Publishing
Bottom Line: Imagine that you just
spent about 30 years following a great process engineer around all of their assignments
and you put every chart, graph, calculation, and know-how into a folder. Well, this
series represents your collected knowledge. Don't get just one, put all of them on
your shelf.
Author(s): Ernest E. Ludwig
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann / Gulf Publishing
Bottom Line: Imagine that you just
spent about 30 years following a great process engineer around all of their assignments
and you put every chart, graph, calculation, and know-how into a folder. Well, this
series represents your collected knowledge. Don't get just one, put all of them on
your shelf.
Author(s): Ernest E. Ludwig
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann / Gulf Publishing
Bottom Line: Imagine that you just
spent about 30 years following a great process engineer around all of their assignments
and you put every chart, graph, calculation, and know-how into a folder. Well, this
series represents your collected knowledge. Don't get just one, put all of them on
your shelf.
Author(s): Francis X. McConville
Publisher: FXM Engineering and Design
Bottom Line: Bridging the gap
between the laboratory, the pilot plant, and the process unit has never looked so
effortless. Fran McConville shares practical tips, pitfalls, quality engineering
data, and valuable insight into unit operations to help chemists and engineers collaborate
to take a process from infancy to adulthood.
Author(s): R. W.
Zappe
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Bottom Line: Another fine work
that focuses on one specific topic and does it very well! Goes the extra mile to not
only enhance your understanding on valves and pressure relief devices, but shows you how
to design them and what can go wrong.
Author(s): Lloyd E.
Brownwell and Edwin H. Young
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
Bottom Line: It's amazing how
little chemical engineers know about the mechanical design of the vessels that they use in
the processing industry. This book will help all chemical engineers communicate with
the people who perform the mechanical design of their vessels.
Author(s): Jacob
A. Moulijn, Michiel Makke, and Annelies Van Diepen
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
Bottom Line: If you're an engineer
who has been working in another industy and you're about to change careers and move into a
hydrocarbon processing facility, this book could be very helpful. It may also be
useful to someone who's not a chemical engineer, but needs to learn about chemical
engineering. Otherwise......well, the cover is nice.
Author(s):
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Bottom Line: A very nice reference
with the information that you'd expect to find. Detailed human interaction
information, physical properties, reactivities, and more. At around 400 pages, it's
not exhaustive but contains the most common industrial and consumer chemicals of interest.
Bottom Line: Hits the mark in
exploring the topic from just about every angle you can imagine. Put over 24 years
of experience with FCC units on your bookshelf. Specialized books such as this one
are often the best way to learn about complicated topics.
Bottom Line: Corrosion engineering
is a science that really needed a great book. Now it's here. Find just about
anything that you'd want to know about nearly every material used in the industrial world.
Getting the right material for the right job is key to a successful engineering
job, this book will certainly help.
Bottom Line: Outside of extremely
expensive encyclopedias covering the topic, this is the best reference for discovering
details about the most common chemical processing industries. Usually, you'll find
just what you needed to know in this book.
Author(s):
P. G. Urben
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Bottom Line: Knowing how a
chemical substance will react to various conditions is key in providing the highest level
of safety possible in the chemical industry. This set of tools will allow you to
quickly evaluate and avoid high risk scenarios.
Author(s):
Robert C. Reid, John M. Prausnitz, and Bruce R. Poling
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Bottom Line: One of the two most
commonly referenced physical property handbooks in the industry. Even with a good
database of properties, this book explains the limitations of the estimation techniques
and will help you calculate properties for mixtures.
Bottom Line: Along with
"Properties of Gases and Liquids", this book is referenced at an amazing rate in
the chemical industry. Resembing a "database on paper", this book delivers
all the physical properties that its 779 pages can hold
Author(s): J.F.
Richardson and D.G. Peacock
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Bottom Line: If you're looking for
a quick reference on all three topics, this is the book for you. For advanced topics
on the subject matter, you may want to consider a title dedicated to the individual topic.
Author(s):
K. Weissermel and H.-J. Arpe
Publisher: VCH Publishers, Inc.
Bottom Line: If you want to know
more about the chemistry behind the popular industrial organic processes including
reaction schemes, temperatures, and pressure, then this is the book for you. If you
need process flow diagrams and equipment details, you'll need to look elsewhere.
Bottom Line: This book would make
a great gift for operators who strive to learn more about the science behind the processes
that they oversee everyday. Operators may find it useful in some instances, but it
won't help them everyday like the process-specific notes that operator carry around after
a few months on the job.
Author(s): R. K.
Sinnott
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Bottom Line: For a holistic view
of chemical engineering design, this books provides as much, if not more, than any other
book available on the topic. Nearly every subject is accompanied by examples and new
technologies are also addressed. In short, a complete, well written and illustrated
resource that is a pleasure to use. The singular weakness may be the design projects
included in this volume.
Handbook of Chemical Engineering
Calculations
(out of four stars)
(out of four stars)
Valve Selection Handbook
Process Equipment Design
Chemical Process Technology
(out of four stars)
Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties
(out of four stars)
Fluid Catalytic Cracking Handbook
Handbook of Corrosion Engineering
Shreve's Chemical Process Industries
Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
The Properties of Gases and Liquids
Chemical Properties Handbook
Chemical Engineering Volume 3: Chemical
& Biochemical Reactors & Process Control
(out of four stars)
Industrial Organic Chemistry, Third Edition
Chemical Operator's Portable Handbook