Perry-s Chemical Engineers- Handbook Description:

Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook review:
2 stars (Good Tables) - I have used this book only when I need thermodynamic, physical or chemical data. However the other sections of this book are not practical at all, for those who can read and apply from pure math this is the one; for those looking for practical applications using the information given by this book, sorry fellas this is not the place for it.
3 stars (A must to show the reality) - This is the best book to show how distant are the theory and the practice of a Chemical Engineer.
2 stars (What's all the fuss?) - Perry's has been gathering dust on my bookshelf at home for years. I always think of it as the book to go to if you want to NOT find the answer to something. In my 20 year career and in my PE test effort, the only thing I ever used it for was to look up properties of substances. It is NOT friendly to the working engineer, since it quickly veers into arcane academic territory on every subject, or else is too general to be useful. This is a serious review of this book by a ChE PE, but I know this review will get panned by all, not because it is not useful, but because you do not agree with it.