Chemical Process Economics
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The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Process Economics (subject code 2173610) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 41 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2173610)Unit 1 Introduction
- Meaning of Project Engineering
- various stages of project implementation Relationship between price of a product and project cost and cost of production
- EVA analysis
Unit 2 Elements of cost of production
- Monitoring of the same in a plant
- Meaning of Administrative expenses
- sales expenses etc
- Introduction to various components of project cost and their estimation Introduction to concept of Inflation
- location index and their use in estimating plant and machinery cost
- Various cost indices
- Relationship between cost and capacity
Unit 3 Project financing
- Debt: Equity ratio
- Promoters’ contribution
- Shareholders’ contribution
- source of finance
- time value of money Concept of interest
- selection of various alternative equipment or system based on this concept
- Indian norms
- EMI calculations
Unit 4 Depreciation and Project Costing
- Depreciation concept
- Indian norms and their utility in estimate of working results of project
- Working capital concept and its relevance to project
- Estimate of working results of proposed project
- Capacity utilization
- Gross profit
- operating profit
- profit before tax, Corporate tax, dividend
- Net cash accruals
Unit 5 Project evaluation
- Cumulative cash flow analysis Break-Even analysis
- incremental analysis
- various ratios analysis
- Discounted cash flow analysis
Unit 6 Project management
- Process Selection
- Site Selection
- Feasibility Report
- Project: Conception to Commissioning: milestones
- Project execution as conglomeration of technical and non- technical activities
- contractual details
- Contract: Meaning
- Types of contract
- Reading of Balance Sheets and evaluation of Techno-commercial Project Reports
- PERT, CPM, bar charts and network diagrams