Performance Analysis processing options

To answer the above-mentioned questions, one can envision so many alternatives they cannot be enumerated. Typically, an engineer charged with the responsibility of answering these questions examines few process options based on experience and corporate preference. Consequently, the designer develops a simulation model, performs an economic analysis and selects the least expensive alternative from the limited number of examined options. This solution is inappropriately designated as the optimum. Normally it is not Indeed, the true optimum may be an order of magnitude less expensive. 

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In clinical applications, the best recommendation for testing available applications would be to use a case-based methodology. We recommend that five or six complicated cases, which would represent a cross section of the patient population served by the pharmacy, be used to test the application. In this way, the clinician will see how the application performs throughout an entire care process and avoid the power path demonstration. In this information age, selecting clinical software is an extremely important task. The explosion of capabilities offered by the Internet can make the selection process both exciting and confusing. A careful analysis of options will usually be rewarded by better results, but wary buyers need to prepare themselves to revisit the marketplace more frequently than they might have in the past to identify innovative alternatives. 

Take the results for questions 4 and 5 and do a comparative cost analysis. First go the the Web and find suitable equipment suppliers that will provide the equipment in the size ranges you have calculated. Obtain some vendor quotes (rough ones will do). Then perform the fowllowing analysis (a) What are the comparative costs between the two oprions for energy use (b) What are the comparative costs between the two options in terms of maintanance and labor costs (c) Can you combine both equipment options into a single process, and if so, can you justify this and how Assume in the above that the reduction in solids concentration must meet the 1 % weirht criteria described in question 4. 

Process and product models are commonly used for performing LCAs of the environmental impacts of materials and products through different stages of fabrication, use, and end-of-life options. In a recent article, it was shown that these models can be represented as process flow diagrams or as matrices of process interactions. Matrix representations are advantageous if application cost, feedback flow, or speed of analysis is important. They are also useful in conjunction with comprehensive, general equilibrium models in which the system boundary of the problem (e.g., an LCA of a product) being analyzed is on the level of the national economy (Hendrickson et al., 1998). Rich communities bear a responsibility to pioneer a path toward sustainable consumption (Myers, 1997). 

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