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Short Answer Questions

What are the three main factors that determine the capital cost of a piece of equipment such as a heat
1.
exchanger at a given time?

2. What is the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) used for, and what does it measure?

3. What is the difference between the total module cost and the grassroots cost of a chemical process?

4. When would you use a cost exponent of 0.6?

5. What is meant by the economy of scale?

6. What is a Lang Factor?

The pressure factor F for a shell-and-tube heat exchanger is significantly smaller than for a vessel
p