INDEX equipment issues

Table 9-42 presents information on some cost indices for the United States. Engineering News-Record updates its construction-cost index in March, June, September, and December. The Oil and Gas Journal gives the Nelson-Farrar refinery indices in the first issue of each quarter. The Chemical Engineering plant-cost index and Marshall and Swift equipment-cost index are given in each issue of the pubhcation Chemical Engineering. Derivation of the base values is referred to in the respective publications. 

Marshall Swift Equipment Cost Index, Chem. Engr., McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Published regularly in specific issues. 

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Chemical Engineering Index, CE (1957-1959 = 100) cost developed for U.S. conditions primarily as a plant construction index. Separate CE indices are published for process equipment, heat exchangers and tanks, process machinery, and for each of the cost components and for the overall weighted total for a typical process. CE instruments is used in Section d. Published in each issue of Chemical Engineering. 

Vatavuk Air Pollution Control Cost Index (VAPCCI 1994 = 100) FOB vendor quotes for U.S. conditions for nine types of air pollution control equipment. Pubhshed in each issue of Chemical Engineering. 

The preparation of sulfonated polystyrene (S-PS) has been described in Other publications and in issued U.S. patents (2,3). The melt viscosities described were measured in a melt index rheometer especially equipped to measure very high melt viscosities under conditions of constant shear stress (generally r = 2,1 X 105 dyn/cm2 at 220°C, or 1.1 X 105 dyn/cm2 at 250°C). 

Source Marshall and Swift Equipment Cost Index. Chem. Eng., last pages of every issue (excerpted by special permission from Chemical Engineering (2005). Copyright 2005, by Access Intelligence, New York). 

Marshall and Swift equipment cost index. Chem. Eng. Last pages of every issue, (www.che.com/themagazine/). 

The ICI-MOND Fire Explosion and Toxicity Index (ICI 1985) was derived from DOW one and it is yet appreciated in process industry in many countries, including Italy. In ICI-MOND index method there are some ninety elementary questions, nested in a three levels tree. For many issues there is also a forth level of nested questions. About two thirds of the questions are for penalties and one third for credits accounting. For the most of the questions a quantitative answer is required. The questions are organized in chapters for penalties section the subjects are related to materials and quantities, processes and equipment, layout, health for credits section instead the method deals with containment, control, safety culture, fire engineering and emergency preparedness. Every issue weighs differently in overall risk levels accounting. Results are presented in a structured way, discriminat-iug fire, toxic, confined and unconfined explosion. 

However, the adoption of novel technologies, though inherently safer, may introduce new hazards when auxiliary units are accormted. In fact the shell tube heat exchangers required by metal hydride technology in Chain 2 and 3 may origin quite easily LOCs. This is accounted for in the UHl indices. This confirms that a key issue that influences the values of the overall hazard index is the plant complexity, in terms of auxiliary equipments and secondary imits. 

The Marshall and Stevens equipment cost index or the Chemical Engineering magazine plant cost index are usually used. Current values are given in each issue of Chemical Engineering magazine. Values for several years cost indices are tabulated in Table 11-1. The total uninstalled equipment cost will be the sum of condenser, reboiler, tower casing, and tray costs. The total capital cost is then found from Eq. (11-1). The capital cost per year equals the capital cost times the depreciation rate. Note that cost estimates can easily vary by up to 35%. 

Department of Agriculture. It issues a number of specifications involving telephone equipment installation, ntany of which involve plastics. Its mission is not listed in the NBS Directory, nor are its specifications tabulated in the World Index of Plastics Standards and the DODISS. Its specifications and standards are listed in the Current REA Publications—REA Telephone Borrowers— and contain specifications known to involve plastics and elastomers. REA Specifications are organized similar to MUitary and Federal Specifications. 

All indices in Figure 7.3 show similar inflationary trends with time. The indices most generally accepted in the chemical industry and reported in the back page of every issue of Chemical Engineering are the Marshall and Swift Equipment Cost Index and the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index. 

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Marshall and Swift index A method of determining the installed equipment cost of a chemical plant. It is based on average cost data from nearly 50 industries involving both process industry and more general industry equipment costs. The cost at any particular time is based on the original cost at some earlier specified time multiplied by a ratio of cost indices for the present to the earlier time of interest. The base year is taken as 1926 with a value of 100. Until April 2012, the index was published in the monthly issues of the magazine Chemical Engineering. 

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