Product Description

The field’s definitive reference for more than half a century—updated for the first time in more than a decade

Since 1934, Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook has delivered unrivaled, state-of-the-art coverage of all aspects of chemical engineering—from the fundamentals to details on computer applications and control. Featuring 2,400 pages and 700 illustrations, the eighth edition is a comprehensive source for the newest developments, advances, achievements, and methods in the field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97433 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2400 pages

From the Back Cover
The definitive reference for chemical and process engineers. Now featuring 50% new or revised material. This Seventh Edition of the world-famous Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook provides you with unrivaled, state-of-the-art coverage of all aspects of chemical engineering from the fundamentals to details on computer applications and control. Featuring over 1,700 illustrations in its more than 2,200 pages of coverage, the Handbook gives you: a comprehensive source for the newest developments, advances, achievements, and methods in your field including thermal design procedures, gas and liquid diffusivity estimation, and industrial processes from aerobic fermentation to pyrometallurgy; all the facts and data on procedures, equipment, performance, and principles that you need including new material on compact heat exchangers, design procedures for distillation columns, and methods for estimating discharge from ruptured lines and vessels; a ready reference to appropriate calculation methods for problems at hand including a completely new section on analysis of plant performance; time and cost-saving tips on design alternatives, application techniques, and approaches to problems that are outside your area of expertise. Authoritative and comprehensive, this edition includes the latest information on: condensers, reboilers, evaporators, and vessels; multicomponent and enhanced distillation, including azeotropic, extractive, and reactive methods; gas absorption processes, with data on plate performance, plate design, and packed towers; super-critical fluid and membrame separation processes; biochemical separation processes; materials of construction; materials for process applications. Chosen by generations of chemical and process engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook continues the fine tradition of earlier editions: it thoroughly meets professionals' needs for complete, reliable, and useful information in the field. ``A valuable tool for chemical engineers.'' C.T. Sciance, Principal Consultant, R&D Planning, Dupont.

About the Author

Robert Perry was chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma.

Donald W. Green is chair and the Deanne E. Ackers distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas.

Customer Reviews

We always say "You'll find it in Perry's"
Quite simply the Chemical Engineer's Bible - a reference book you simply cannot afford to be without. Worth every penny, franc or cent!

Hard copy virtues with new features, but more could be done.
All chemical engineers are familiar with Perry's handbook. The CD-ROM version brings all the information and wisdom of the paper version to your computer, with the added benefit of comprehensive and powerful searching tools. Like reviewers of the hard copy, I'd give the contents part 5 stars.

The searching capability and hyperlink facilities are a boon - worth 5 stars on their own.

The "active" features are less impressive. Some active figures are graphs linked to the Activ8 programme. When you double click the object, this programme produces a new window with a dialogue box which can read the cursor position to you when it's over the graph. You can use this to copy and paste data. Other figures bring up just an image and the image is less clear than the original document! Active tables work in a similar way, and some allow for interpolation between tabulated values. If you copy and paste, the whole table is pasted, whereas I would have preferred to have been able to select some cells of interest and just paste them. I had thought the package also gave active formulae, a bit like a Mathcad worksheet or a spreadsheet perhaps, but there are none in this version despite the tempting claim on the box "On-screen problem-solving: tables, graphs, calculations". So, only 3 stars for the active bit.

The book is still very much an American one, and SI units are treated as second best. In fact, the book has an amazing variety of mixed units due to the many contributors .... but we chemical engineers are used to that, I suppose. It would be better for most engineers of today if it catered for SI units better. At least please provide an active units converter! How about the one called "Universal Units Converter" by Sarah Hanson, available free on the IChemE web site? 2 stars for that part.

The part I like least is the license agreement. I work with a number of colleagues, and the paper versions of our textbooks are passed around as needed and still spend most of their lives on the shelves. However you can only read this CD "book" at one desk, as the license restricts installation to one computer only. Clearly the manufacturer wants to prevent one copy from supplying the needs of a multi-national corporation, and for these users, multi-user and LAN licenses are available, which is fine. But restricting the single user license to one PC is an unnecessary nuisance. By all means forbid copying the CD, but please let us pass the CD between colleagues. Only 1 star for that, I'm afraid.

Overall? I'd still rate it 4 stars as it's just so useful in this electronic form. We metric engineers have long coped with Perry in US units, and we never had anything active before, so the current offering is better than before if a little disappointing. The license problem can be lived with - our office copy is now on a spare PC for all to use - I just think it's annoying. Hopefully future versions will build on this, and I hope that updates will not be full cost to owners of this version. Given these, it might be worth 6 stars!

I'll not bother with my paper copies of Perry again!

the most important book you'll buy as a chem eng student
the most important book you'll buy as a chem eng student, full of useful information, a genuine help once you leave university. buy the hardback it will survive the abuse better.