Process Industry Economics
eBook - ePub

Process Industry Economics

Principles, Concepts and Applications

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Process Industry Economics

Principles, Concepts and Applications

About this book

Process Industry Economics: Principles, Concepts and Applications, Second Edition, explores the fundamentals of market evaluation, capital and operating cost estimation, and profitability evaluation, along with their implications for process technology evaluation, project development and investment decisions. Sections cover time dependent technology evolution in process plants, including scale development, performance improvement in new and operating plants, and learning related to environmental, safety and sustainability assessments. Influences on capital investment decisions, including capacity planning and environmental considerations are explored and supported by case studies. Finally, the aspects of overall industry performance and drivers are discussed.- Outlines the basic principles of economic evaluation- Identifies the roles of engineering, scientific, commercial and management personnel in contributing to economic evaluation- Explores the interaction of economics with safety, environmental and sustainability criteria in project evaluation

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1: The scope of process industry economics
  8. Chapter 2: Market evaluation and forecasting
  9. Chapter 3: Capital cost estimation
  10. Chapter 4: Operating cost estimation
  11. Chapter 5: Evaluation of project profitability
  12. Chapter 6: Some examples in process economics
  13. Chapter 7: Process technology evolution and adoption
  14. Chapter 8: Capital investment decisions
  15. Chapter 9: Industry planning and structure
  16. Glossary
  17. Appendix 1: Some currency exchange rates relative to the US$ for selected countries
  18. Appendix 2: Consumer price index (CPI) statistics for some selected countries
  19. Appendix 3: Capital cost inflation index for Australian plants cost index
  20. Appendix 4: US inflation indices for plant capital cost and cost of living
  21. Appendix 5: Discount tables
  22. Index