Reddit reviews Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Eighth Edition

Check out Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook. It has a ton of easy to follow descriptions, but also has in-depth mathematical and chemical models. Buy a used copy, though. It covers simple stills, distillation, hplc, recrystallization, sparging, stripping, solid and liquid phase extraction, and many more.

I work in process design and reference these daily:

• Perry's
  
• Crane Technical Paper No. 410
  
• Cameron Hydraulic Data
  
  EDIT:
  And yes, the FE Supplied Reference Manual is extremely useful.
  

Great place to start -- the Chem Eng bible -- Perry's Handbook:
http://www.amazon.ca/Perrys-Chemical-Engineers-Handbook-Edition/dp/0071422943

https://www.amazon.com/Perrys-Chemical-Engineers-Handbook-Eighth/dp/0071422943

Could this possibly be it?

That's because they have 2 reference manuals that condense everything down:

https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Engineering-Reference-Manual-7th/dp/1591264103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481981946&sr=8-1&keywords=pe+chemical+engineering

https://www.amazon.com/Perrys-Chemical-Engineers-Handbook-Eighth/dp/0071422943/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1481981968&sr=8-3&keywords=perry%27s

How'd she do? I'm just about to start studying, taking the ChE PE in the spring

My girlfriend is a 3rd year Chem E. She commonly uses this book: http://www.amazon.com/Perrys-Chemical-Engineers-Handbook-Edition/dp/0071422943/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343794700&sr=8-1&keywords=perry%27s+chemical+engineering+handbook.

Good luck in your studies, that's a very challenging major.

It ain't cheap, but it's worth it.

http://www.amazon.com/Perrys-Chemical-Engineers-Handbook-Edition/dp/0071422943

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McGraw Hill and Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook have the information on calculating heat transfer coefficients for heat exchangers. Heat exchangers can require itterative calculations if you're doing the calcs by hand. It's much easier to use software like HTRI