Between an Electrochemical Reactor and Associated Unit Processes

Interactions Between an Electrochemical Reactor and Associated Unit Processes 

For process optimization, costing models must be used, on the basis of minimizing the cost of product. An optimization in terms of energy conservation alone, for example, would not be appropriate. If a plant comprises N items of equipment to which individual capital and production costs C and P can be assigned, such a model will produce a number of equations  

Capital and production costs associated with the plant are  

If the process variable Oj affects the performance of only one item of equipment, item n, say, then Eq. (6.15) reduces to  

We shall use the flow sheet of Fig. 6.5 to develop a first-order costing model. Table 6.11 lists the numerical data on which the model is based. Again, the costing data quoted in this book do not necessarily represent up-to-date values that can be used by the reader for his own calculations. (See, however, Section 6.5.1 for estimated 1990 figures.) 

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Plimley, R. E., 1980, Interactions between an electrochemical reactor and associated unit processes, J. Chem. Tech. Biotechnol, 30 233-243. 

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