CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PLANT DESIGN

F. C. Vilbrandt and C. E. Dryden, Chemical Engineering Plant Design , 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959. 

BAASEL, W. D. (1974) Preliminary Chemical Engineering Plant Design (Elsevier). 

I wish to express my deep thanks to the Dow Chemical Company, particularly to my preceptors Dr. Harold Graves and James Scovic, and everyone in the Process Engineering Department. They were completely open with me, and showed me how chemical engineering plant design is done. Also, I would like to thank all those others at Dow who spent a lot of time educating me. 

In June, 1969, the indexes for the major components in the Chemical Engineering Plant Design Index were ... 

If the weightings used by the Chemical Engineering Plant Design Index are employed, the result would be 118.2. This is about a 2% difference. 

No information on the cost of a specific polystyrene plant could be found in the literature. One 1969 source18, however, listed the average cost of a polystyrene plant as between 100 and 205 per annual ton. This will be extrapolated to 1974, using the Chemical Engineering Plant Design Index and an assumed inflation rate. 

W.D. Baasel, Preliminary Chemical Engineering Plant Design pp.242-243 (Table 9.3 Capital Cost Estimate of Nitric Acid Plant), Elsevier, New York (1976). 

Vilbrandt and Dryden, Chemical Engineering Plant Design, McGraw-... 

Vilbrandt, F.C. Chemical Engineering Plant Design McGraw-Hill New York, 1934. 

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