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Equipment costs for a food waste conversion plant were estimated using a formula that takes into account plant capacity, reactor conversion, and number of functional units. The plant was estimated to process 36.5 tonnes per year of food waste based on 100kg processed daily. The reactor conversion was calculated to be 0.346 based on the mass of desired output versus reactor input. There were 5 functional units (reactor, heat exchanger, 2 separators, filter). Plugging these values into the cost formula resulted in an estimated capital cost of £6377831.247 or RM 4.062678504 × 107 prior to August 2015 exchange rates.

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Equipment costs for a food waste conversion plant were estimated using a formula that takes into account plant capacity, reactor conversion, and number of functional units. The plant was estimated to process 36.5 tonnes per year of food waste based on 100kg processed daily. The reactor conversion was calculated to be 0.346 based on the mass of desired output versus reactor input. There were 5 functional units (reactor, heat exchanger, 2 separators, filter). Plugging these values into the cost formula resulted in an estimated capital cost of £6377831.247 or RM 4.062678504 × 107 prior to August 2015 exchange rates.

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Cost Estimation

Equipment costs were evaluated by using formulas from Bridgewater, IchemE


(1988) which gives a developed relatively simple correlation for plant capacities
under 60,000 tonne per year prior to price in the year of 2004.

Q
s

C=150,000 N
Where:
C = capital cost in pounds sterling
N = Number of functional units
Q = plant capacity, tonne per year
s = reactor conversion
To find Q, we need to provide our estimated food waste used per year. In our
estimated food waste, we will use 100kg of food waste per day which equivalent to:

100 k g 365 day 36,500 kg

=
day
year
ye ar
Convert from kg to tonne:

36,500 kg 36.5 tonne


=
year
year

To find s = reactor conversion, we use this relation:

s=

ma ss of desired output
mass of reactor input

From the mass balance, of desired output is 34.6 kg/day and our reactor input is
100kg per day.
And for our input, we use 100kg/day of food waste.Therefore,

s=

34.6 kg /day
=0.346
100 kg /day

For the number of functional units, N , in our proposed plant design we have a HTL
reactor, we have a heat exchanger, two separators and one filter and for altogether
we have 5 functional units.
Substituting all the values and data into equation :

C=150,000 5

36.5 0.30
=6377831.247 pounds
0.346

6.37 6377831.247=RM 4.062678504 107 (prior to exchange rate in August 2015)

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