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The most commonly used index is the chemical engineering plant cost index published in Chemical Engineering Magazine. 

Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P. and Avrom Bendavid-Val, Green Profits The Manager s Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention, Butterworth-Heinemann and Pollution Engineering Magazine, MA, 2001,... 

In order to update the cost of the exchanger, we use the M S index whose value in 1992 and 1996 was 943 and 1,039, respectively (see Chemical Engineering magazine). Therefore, Eq. (III.l) may be used to give the 1996 cost of the 100 wr shell-and-tube heat exchanger to be... 

J. W. Blattner and G. Bramble, "Environmental Manager, Chemical Engineering Magazine, Mc-Graw Hill, New York City, pp. 127-130, June, 1994. 

F. N. Nazaro, Rupture Disks , Chemical Engineering Magazine, McGraw-Hill, New York, June 20, 1988. 

Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index [42]. Probably the most commonly used cost adjusting index printed/updated monthly is in Chemical Engineering Magazine send has established continuity over many years. Its breakdo vn component costs apply to plants and plant equipment/systems. 

Marshall and Swift Equipment Cost Index [57]. Commonly used for process industry equipment and index numbers presented by industries in Chemical Engineering Magazine on a monthly basis. 

Figure 12-137. Effect of partiaiiy ciosed outiet vanes or dampers on fan pressure-voiume curve. (Used by permission Tobin, J. F. Power Engineering, p. 82, Sept. 1954. PennWeii Pubiishing Company/Power Engineering Magazine. Aii rights reserved.)...

Brinton WC (1914) Graphic methods for presenting facts. The Engineering Magazine Company, New York (reprinted 1980, Arno Press, New York)... 

And that s how I discovered the following interesting piece by Ronald L. Hughes, Senior RCI Consultant Trainer, originally published in Plant Engineering Magazine, January 2003. Except for the bold face italic content, which I have added, I will quote him verbatim (because he says it best) ... 

Reprinted with permission from Ronald L. Hughes, 2003, The Problem with Problem Solving, Plant Engineering Magazine.)... 

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Sandler, Steven, M. 1998. Spice subcircuit accurately models zener characteristics. Personal Engineering Magazine, November, pp. 45-47, available at http //www. aeng.com/articles/zener.pdf... 

TABLE 20.4. Chemical Engineering Magazine Cost Indexes... 

Kirkpatrick Award Committee and Chemical Engineering Magazine in December 1979 ( ). 

The cost of equipment or of a complete plant must be up-graded to account for the reduced purchasing power of the dollar (or pound) from a given time datum to the present. Various cost indices are published annually (and monthly, see Chemical Engineering magazine). Those of particular relevance to chemical plant costs are the Nelson Refinery Construction Index, Chemical Engineering (CE) Plant Cost Index, and the Marshall and Swift (M S, previously Marshall and Stevens) Equipment Cost Index. These indices apply to complete plants rather than individual items of equipment. The appropriate equation is C2 = C, (I2/I ), where Zis the relevant index, and the suffixes represent different time periods. 

Our group discussed rewards to the institutions to improve their records. For industry, the ranking system is important, because executives pay attention. The cover of a recent copy of Woman Engineer magazine showed rankings for the top 50 companies—how welcoming they were and what kinds of places they were for women to work at. Companies paid attention to that. 

McNaughton, K.J., Materials Engineering 1, Selecting Materials For Process Equipment, Chemical Engineering Magazine, McGraw-Hill Publications Co., NY, USA, 1980. 

Example6.10 is from Chemical Engineering magazine. All the other examples are fromT. G. Hicks. Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations, McGraw-Hill. 

Example 13.10 is adapted from an article in Chemical Engineering magazine. 

Examples 15.10 and 15.11 are adapted from Chemical Engineering magazine. 

There are several inflation or cost indexes in use. Exanqrles are the Chemical Engineering Cost Index (CE Index), and the Nelson Refinery Cost Index. Chemical Engineering magazine publishes the CE Index regularly, whereas the Oil and Gas Journal reports the Nelson Refinery Index. We will use the CE Index. Cost indexes are relative to some time in the past. Chemical Engineering magazine defined the CE Index as equal to 100 during 1957-1959 when plant costs were relatively stable. 

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