Automation and Control Systems Economics, 2nd Edition

By Paul G. Friedmann

Index

A

analytical instrument 51

application software 48-49, 51, 74-75, 84, 86-87, 89, 124, 127, 135, 143-144, 160, 163

automation 26, 43, 129, 141, 143-144, 146-148

B

basic oxygen furnace (see BOF) 133, 135

batch process 29, 131, 133, 136, 158

batch reactor 133, 136

BDF 97, 173

benefit decline factor (see BDF) 97, 173

blending 11, 15, 22, 28, 89, 148

BOF 133, 135

C

capacity 12, 22, 24-25, 28, 38, 41, 65, 68, 98-99, 106, 127, 136, 138, 162

capital rationing 66, 68, 161

cash flow diagram 11-12, 51-52, 59-60, 109, 149

cash flow table 5, 13, 33, 42, 44, 47, 51, 57-58, 105, 107-108, 157

combustion 23, 52, 121

commercial risk 96, 113

commissioning 50-51, 124, 143, 160

complexity 49-50, 85, 114

constraint 28, 34, 38-41, 73, 136, 159

contingency factor 84-85, 88, 97, 162

control performance 9-10, 15, 33-36, 73, 76, 93 94, 96, 115

control room 43, 50-51, 58, 74

cooling tower 37-38, 121

D

DCS 33, 47, 51, 53, 65, 87, 114, 138

decision tree 97, 113, 116-117, 125, 128, 167

demand control 23, 28

direct labor 26

discount factor 61, 67, 160

discrete part manufacture 133

dispersion 103, 107-108, 110, 126-127, 165-166

distillation 24, 27-29, 37, 100

distributed control system (see DCS) 47-48

E

economic performance 9-10, 33-34, 133, 143

efficiency 10, 23, 51, 73, 76, 157

expected cost 83-85, 88, 116, 162-163

F-G

first cost 11, 14-15, 51, 58-59, 160

fixed cost 11, 173

fresh acid 121

future value 60-61

H

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