Houston, TX May 7, 2009 – EPCON International has released Version 8.1 of the API Technical Data Book, including the latest AIChE DIPPR Data Bank.

New features include: updates to several chapters in the data book based on the most recent R&D efforts.

Beginning in 1966 some of the brightest minds in the Oil and Gas Industry put together the best available phase equilibrium and thermophysical property data and published the first edition of the API Technical Data Book.  This work of the API Tech Data Committee has continued for 40 years.  Now, all of the data and information from four decades of hard work have been distilled into the 40th Anniversary Edition of the API Tech Data Boo (the 8th Edition).

API's flagship product is deployed as an easy to use software package covering the fundamentals of thermophysical properties and process engineering.  The API Technical Data Book allows you to accurately evaluate hydrocarbon processing systems with its 130+ recommended API methods and 20+ software programs - a must-have resource that engineers working in the Oil and Gas industry rely on to further their know-how and careers.