Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Waste Gas Treatment Plants for the Glass Industry.

Cost-effectiveness of different plant solutions for glass furnace waste gas cleaning is compared in the present paper. Plant arrangements based on electrostatic precipi-tator or fabric filter dust collectors and wet, semi-dry, or dry processes for acid gas removal have been considered. A critical survey of each solution's advantages and disadvantages has been presented, taking into account both effectiveness and costs resulting from each available system.

Polyfunctional Plants for Industrial Waste Disposal-Part I: Process and Equipment Design.

This article is the first of two papers dealing with development of a design and costing procedure for polyfunctional waste treatment plants. Part I reviews equipment sizing aspects. Part II defines and validates the cost estimation procedure.

Polyfunctional Plants for Industrial Waste Disposal-Part II: Economics and Model Evaluation.

This is the second part of a two-part paper dealing with the preliminary design and costing of polyfunctional waste treatment plants. In this article, we present some criteria for estimating capital investment and annual operating costs of polyfunctional plants for industrial waste treatment. The process and equipment design methods presented in Part I of this article, together with the economic approach proposed here, allow for complete technical/economic analyses.