Friday, January 20, 2006

Online Calculator Part 1

Efunda
This online site provides some calculators that may be of interest to chemical engineers. Calculators include unit conversions, gage calculator, hardness approximation, Reynolds number, pipe friction, and venturi flowmeter.

Industrial Filtration Calculators
Need help selecting equipment for an industrial filtration? How about some help with a sedimentation velocity calculation? This site contains online calculators to help with these tasks. Also included is a tool to estimate the specific resistance to filtration from a particle size distribution provided by the user.

Equipment Costing
Online equipment cost estimating from Matches. This Java powered online calculator provides cost estimates for a wide variety of process equipment. The correlations are not discussed, so judging the accuracy is difficult. Costs are expressed in year 2000 U.S. dollars.

LMNO Engineering
Online calculators including hydraulics of open channels, tank discharges, pipe friction factors and head losses, and groundwater calculations. Some calculations are free while other require a $20 registration fee.

McCabe-Thiele Calculator
Calculate the number of theoretical trays needed for your distillation column via the McCabe-Thiele method.