The CAPEC database

The Computer-Aided Process Engineering Center (CAPEC) database of measured data was established with the aim to promote greater data exchange in the c hemical engineering community. The target properties are pure component pro perties, mixture properties, and special drug solubility data. The database divides pure component properties into primary, secondary, and functional properties. Mixture properties are categorized in terms of the number of co mponents in the mixture and the number of phases present. The compounds in the database have been classified on the basis of the functional groups in the compound. This classification makes the CAPEC database a very useful to ol, for example, in the development of new property models, since propertie s of chemically similar compounds are easily obtained. A program with effic ient search and retrieval functions of properties has been developed.