Print This Page Email This Page Copyright Permissions Add A Comment Custom Reprints Current Issue View Archives More Thermal & Energy Management Newsfront: Combustion Equipment, Burning for YouChementator: Joint venture will produce transportation fuels from agricultural and forest residues  Chementator: Biomass-to-DME  Facts at Your Fingertips: Heat Transfer System Design  October 2008: Letters, announcements, postscripts and corrections Related Stories Target CostingPilot Plant Cost Estimating: Make Intelligent Use of ContingencyChementator: Coal-Mine Vent AirMaking Sense of Your Project Cost EstimateHow to Prepare a Process Design Basis

Processing & Handling :: Thermal & Energy Management

April 1, 2006

How to Estimate Utility Costs  

Utility estimates are often complicated because they depend on both inflation and energy costs. This simplified approach offers a two-factor utility-cost equation and the relevant coefficients for a number of utilities

Gael D. Ulrich and Palligarnai T. Vasudevan, University of New Hampshire 

Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   Typical process utilities include electricity, process steam, refrigerants, compressed air, cooling water, heated water, hot oil, process...

This information is only available to
Chemical Engineering members and subscribers.

Forgot your user ID or password?
Click here to have it sent to you.

Not a member yet?

Email Address First Name Last Name

UPGRADE now, to full archive accces and you get ... FREE access to our exclusive buyers' guide of more than 8,000 CPI supplier and vendor companies. FREE access to industry exclusive webcasts and whitepapers. Subscriber ONLY discounts on engineering books.