Profitability Analysis Spreadsheet CD-ROM

This section is provided on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book. It shows how to use purchase and installation cost estimates from Aspen IPE and other sources, together with an economics spreadsheet by Holger Nickisch (2003) to estimate profitability measures for the monochlorobenzene separation process, which was introduced in Section 4.4. In Section 16.7, Aspen IPE was used to estimate the total permanent investment for this process. The economics spreadsheet, Profitability Analysis — l.O.xls, is on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book. 

Having studied this chapter, and completed several of the exercises, the reader should have learned to 

Estimate annual costs using a standard cost sheet like that in Table 17.1. 

Estimate annual cash flows, working capital, and the total capital investment in Table 16.9. 

Compute approximate profitability measures, ROI, PBP, VP, and annualized cost. 

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