Additional Problems

1. One fluid process plant has total estimated

equipment cost of $2.5 million. Find the total
plant cost by Lang’s factor method.
dt = Six CE = 4.74 + $2.5 + 10

=> $ 11.85 %186

2. A packaging machine is expected to delivery cost of
$2 million with installation. The cost factor for direct
costs of machine in ready to operate condition is 0.45.
A cost factor of 0.28 is used to cover indirect cost.
What will the cost of this packaging machine?
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5 = (1+ 0.281) x $2178
10.45 +
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+= $3.46 / 10
3. Use the Lang-factor method to estimate the
total capital investment, as of the year 2009
(M&S equipment cost index = 1470), to produce
cyclohexane according to the benzene
hydrogenation process shown in figure.
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However, the makeup H2 feed is not available at 335 psia, but at 75 psia.
Therefore, a feed-gas compressor (K2) has been added.
Also two heat exchanger have been added.
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Reactor effluent stream S7 now enters new exchanger H2, which cools the
effluents to 260oF by producing 10 psig steam from boiler feed water.
The effluent leaves H2 as stream S7A and enters new exchanger H3, where
it is heat exchanged with the feed benzene, heating benzene to 235oF while ของ เ มท อ

being cooled to 201oF and leaving as stream S7B, which now enters existing
exchanger H1.
The process design has been completed, with the equipment sizes in the
table.
Also included in table are estimates of the purchase costs in the year 1977
(M&S equipment cost index = 514).
All equipment is fabricated from carbon steel.
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Label temperature pressure Cost
(oF) (psia) ($)
Recycle compressor K1 3 hp 120 350 2,000
Feed-gas compressor K2 Ad
296 hp 450 350 80,000
Benzene feed pump P1 spare 4 hp 120 350 1,200 * 2
Recycle pump P2 1 hp 120 350 500 <2
Cooler H1 210 ft2 210 300 4,000
Effluent-BFW heat H2 Ad
120 ft2 400 320 2,500
exchanger
Effluent-benzene H3 Ad 160 ft2 270 310 3,200
heat exchanger
High-pressure flash F1 2 ft diameter × 8 ft height 120 300 5,000
Low-pressure flash F2 2 ft diameter × 8 ft height 120 20 3,500
Reactor R1 8 ft diameter × 30 ft height 400 330 75,000
$ 17868
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&+ = 5.7 x ( 1,05 x $170000) = $1068921 x

Mes index 1974

1470
=> $ 7068921
=> $3.057,030
%
514

The cost for delivery of the equipment to the plant

site obtain from the total purchase cost multiply by
1.05 and provide spares for the two pumps. The
Lang factor of Peters and Timmerhaus (1968) for
fluids processing is 5.7.