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CHE 403 Chemical Plant Economics

HND2 levelEngineering & Technology13 topics

CHE 403 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Investment evaluation
  2. Cash flow analysis
  3. Time value of money
  4. Methods of evaluating cash flow
  5. Rate of return on investment
  6. Depreciation, service life and working capital
  7. Types and accuracy of cost estimates
  8. Cost estimation by factors and scaling
  9. Six-tenths rule for scale-up
  10. Start-up and utility system costs
  11. Fixed capital cost estimation
  12. Direct and indirect costs
  13. Fixed and variable costs

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Investment evaluation

Investment evaluation in chemical plant economics focuses on determining whether a proposed project will generate adequate returns for the firm. Core concepts include Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period, Discounted Payback, and Profitability Index (PI).

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