Chemical Engineering search tools

General scientific/engineering search tools

 - see also Engineering Village
All engineering disciplines. Includes links to cited documents.


Database platform for Compendex and Inspec databases (see separate entries). Search databases separately or together. Includes links to cited documents.

  (see also Engineering Village)
Physics, electrical engineering, electronics and computing. Includes links to cited documents.

Engineering Data and Technical References to Solve Engineering Problems.


You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.


All subjects. Includes links to cited documents.


All subjects. Includes links to cited documents.

Specialist search tools for chemical price data


A chemical pricing database from the University of Texas which includes citations from Chemical Week and ICIS Chemical Business. Try searching for a chemical in the Chemical Pricing Database to get source information which can be helpful for searching Factiva.


You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.

CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform


  • SciFinder is a key chemistry resource searchable by reference, substance, reaction or chemical structure. SciFinder includes access to , and . Scifinder has pricing for a range of chemicals, but only for lab quantities. 

  • CAS Analytical Methods is a comprehensive, searchable database designed to help researchers quickly locate, compare, and validate step-by-step experimental procedures for chemistry. It streamlines R&D by providing curated protocols, including sample preparation, instrument parameters, and validation data from top journals and patents.

  • CAS Formulus is a comprehensive, web-based database and workflow tool designed to help formulation scientists accelerate product development. It enables researchers to find, analyze, and compare formulations from patents, journals, and product inserts across industries like pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and cosmetics.


Contains contract and contract pricing on PP, HDPE, and LDPE.

 

Published monthly in the Chemical Engineering magazine. To access see the Password List. Once logged in click on the Plant Cost Index link at the top.


Contains production and some pricing information for minerals (e.g., elements, fertilizers, metals, oxides, salts, etc.)

Specialist search tools/collections


Provides thermophysical property data for about 25,000 pure compounds and 115,000 mixtures. DETHERM contains Literature values, together with bibliographical information, descriptors and abstracts. 5.6 million data sets are currently stored. The following properties are stored:  Phase equilibrium data, Vapor pressures, critical data, Thermodynamic properties, Transport properties, Surface tension, Electrolyte data.

This is a full text database produced by SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) that provides access to technical papers in the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry


Technical reports, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information from the US Department of Energy from the 1940s onwards.


You can search for substances either by name or structure to retrieve literature, patents and a list of commercial suppliers for pricing.

E-books

E-book collections

Theses


Details of dissertations and theses from around the world. Includes some full text.

 
UK PhD dissertations - many can be freely downloaded.

Standards


Full text of British standards, codes of practice.

 
Full text of ASTM standards, STPs , monographs and journals.