many cases conducted in the form of cost-benefit analysis (CBA). However, a critical analysis of CBA in the context of …. benefit assessment): In the context of infrastructure planning and design, impact assessment has been utilized in the … evaluation of alternatives without incorporating benefit assessment as a major criterion in the analysis. Thus, the focus has …

terms of ABC's of the 1990 CAA Amendments: abatement strategy, banking, and cost competitiveness. The implications of the … general principles presented in this paper on least cost emission reductions and emissions banking to hedge against risk are …

first purchase price, the f.o.b. and landed cost of imported crude oil, and the refiners` acquisition cost of crude oil …

This Deliverable No. 18b - Capital and Operating Cost Estimates includes a detailed presentation of the 12,500 BPD coal …-to-methanol-to-gasoline plant from the standpoint of capital, preoperations, start-up and operations cost estimation. The base capital cost estimate … cost estimate as well as separate estimates for preoperations, startup and operations activities were developed by Grace …

A comparison of ten models for computing the cost of hydrothermal energy is presented. This comparison involved a … identifying the most important parameters in the context of accurate estimates of cost of hydrothermal energy. Important features …

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Building Cost Index indicates that actual escalation since 1970 is near 10% per year … the cost of a typical construction project, which for our purposes, is a complex of office buildings and experimental … construction project. The building cost index is compared to other national building cost indexes. …

Cost studies were done for Total Flow, double flash, and multistage flash binary systems for electric Energy production …/kW h respectively. The Total Flow and double flash systems are not distinguishable on a cost basis alone; the multistage … flash binary system, with capital cost of $1,343 /kW and energy cost of 46.9 mills/kW h, is significantly more expensive. If …