The 2010 PEP Yearbook offers a new user interface providing:
- Custom raw material and utility prices and other fixed costs can be entered by user
- Download ‘live’ Excel files to customize the economic calculation
- Directly compare economics of a process in up to four regions
- User can compare up to four processes in one region
- Quickly access information from the detailed reports in your online PEP library for each process technology 600 chemicals, polymers, and refinery products
The data help you:
- Identify what processes are available for a particular chemical
- Compare economics of technologies
- Compare regional economics
- Compare economics at various plant capacities
- Examine cost of raw material being purchased
- Look for potential processes that require a specific material
- Examine process utility requirements
- Establish value for products and intermediates whose prices are difficult to obtain
- Estimate production costs at three operating rates
For each process, the information provided includes raw material consumption, by- product production, utility requirements, and capital and production costs.
