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9.3 Time Basis for Compound Interest Calculations
9.3.1 Effective Annual Interest Rate
9.3.2 Continuously Compounded Interest
9.4 Cash Flow Diagrams
9.4.1 Discrete Cash Flow Diagram
9.4.2 Cumulative Cash Flow Diagram
9.5 Calculations from Cash Flow Diagrams
9.5.1 Annuities—A Uniform Series of Cash Transactions
9.5.2 Discount Factors

9.6 Inflation
9.7 Depreciation of Capital Investment
9.7.1 Fixed Capital, Working Capital, and Land
9.7.2 Different Types of Depreciation
9.7.3 Current Depreciation Method: Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS)
9.8 Taxation, Cash Flow, and Profit
9.9 Summary
References
Short Answer Questions
Problems
Chapter 10 Profitability Analysis
10.1 A Typical Cash Flow Diagram for a New Project

10.2 Profitability Criteria for Project Evaluation
10.2.1 Nondiscounted Profitability Criteria
10.2.2 Discounted Profitability Criteria
10.3 Comparing Several Large Projects: Incremental Economic Analysis
10.4 Establishing Acceptable Returns from Investments: The Concept of Risk
10.5 Evaluation of Equipment Alternatives
10.5.1 Equipment with the Same Expected Operating Lives
10.5.2 Equipment with Different Expected Operating Lives
10.6 Incremental Analysis for Retrofitting Facilities
10.6.1 Nondiscounted Methods for Incremental Analysis
10.6.2 Discounted Methods for Incremental Analysis
10.7 Evaluation of Risk in Evaluating Profitability
10.7.1 Forecasting Uncertainty in Chemical Processes
10.7.2 Quantifying Risk
10.8 Profit Margin Analysis
10.9 Summary

References
Short Answer Questions
Problems
SECTION 3 SYNTHESIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Chapter 11 Utilizing Experience-Based Principles to Confirm the Suitability of a Process Design
11.1 The Role of Experience in the Design Process
11.1.1 Introduction to Technical Heuristics and Short-Cut Methods
11.1.2 Maximizing the Benefits Obtained from Experience
11.2 Presentation of Tables of Technical Heuristics and Guidelines
11.3 Summary