Home / Chemical Engineering / Chemical Engineering Plant Economics :: Section 2

Chemical Engineering :: Chemical Engineering Plant Economics

  1. The amount of simple interest during 'n' interest period is (where, i = interest rate based on the length of one interest period, p = principal)

  2. A.
    p.i.n.
    B.
    p(1 + i.n)
    C.
    p(1 + i)n
    D.
    p(1 - i.n)

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  3. Pick out the correct statement.

  4. A.
    Difference between income and expense is termed as gross revenue.
    B.
    Unamortised cost is the difference between the original cost of a property and all the depreciation charges made to date.
    C.
    Sum-of-the-years-digits methods of depreciation calculation accounts for the interest on the investment.
    D.
    Scrap value is the net amount of money obtainable from the sale of used property over and above any charges involved in its removal & sale.

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  5. Optimum number of effects in a multiple effect evaporator is decided by the

  6. A.
    cost benefit analysis.
    B.
    floor area availability.
    C.
    terminal parameters.
    D.
    evaporation capacity required.

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  7. Which of the following is the costliest source of getting hydrogen on commercial scale for the manufacture of nitrogeneous fertiliser ?

  8. A.
    Coal gasification
    B.
    Steam reforming of naphtha
    C.
    Alectrolysis of water
    D.
    Coke oven gas

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  9. Cost of piping in a fluid processing unit (e.g., distillation) of a chemical process plant is about __________ percent of the fixed capital investment.

  10. A.
    4
    B.
    13
    C.
    22
    D.
    34

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum