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DESIGN INFORMATION AND DATA
Internet sources
Many of the university libraries in the UK and USA provide information guides for the
students and these are available on the Internet. A search using the key words such as
“chemical engineering information” will usually find them. Some examples are:
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: www.hw.ac.uk/lib
Edinburgh, UK: www.eevl.ac.uk
University of Florida, USA: www.che.ufl.edu/

Karlsruhe, USA: www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/chem-eng
Useful gateways

EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) Internet Guide to Engineering,
Mathematics and Computing, www.eevl.ac.uk
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHEindex.html
University of Florida, USA

International Directory of Chemical Engineering URLs: www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/chem-
eng.html
Karlsburg University, Germany
Many of the important sources of engineering information are subscription services. In
the United Kingdom some of them can be accessed using the Athens service available to
universities.
Another important source is the Knovel organisation. This provides online access to most
standard reference books. It is a subscription service but can be accessed through many
libraries, including those of the professional engineering institutions and some universities.

8.3. GENERAL SOURCES OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
In this section those references that contain comprehensive compilations of physical
property data are reviewed. Sources of data on specific physical properties are given
in the remaining sections of the chapter.
International Critical Tables (1933) is still probably the most comprehensive compi-
lation of physical properties, and is available in most reference libraries. Though it was
first published in 1933, physical properties do not change, except in as much as experi-
mental techniques improve, and ICT is still a useful source of engineering data. ICT is
now available as an ebook and can be referenced on the Internet through Knovel (2003).
Tables and graphs of physical properties are given in many handbooks and textbooks
on Chemical Engineering and related subjects. Many of the data given are duplicated
from book to book, but the various handbooks do provide quick, easy access to data on
the more commonly used substances.
An extensive compilation of thermophysical data has been published by Plenum Press,
Touloukian (1970 77). This multiple-volume work covers conductivity, specific heat,