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National Exams — December 2013 — 04-Chem-A5 Chemical Plant Design and Economics. Three-hour, open-book exam; any non-communicating calculator permitted. Six equally weighted questions are posed and the candidate answers any five; only the first five are marked. All six are answered below for completeness. Questions 1, 3 and 6 are conceptual design / management questions answered as organised prose; questions 2, 4 and 5 contain the numerical work (production capacity and pricing, simple- and compound-interest loan accounting, and sinking-fund depreciation) and every boxed figure.
Reference texts: M.S. Peters, K.D. Timmerhaus & R.E. West, Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers (5th ed., McGraw-Hill) — the exam's named primary text (cost estimation, interest and investment, depreciation, profitability, process synthesis, and plant safety); R. Turton et al., Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes (4th ed., Prentice Hall) — flowsheet synthesis, separation selection, and safety; W.D. Seider et al., Product and Process Design Principles (3rd ed., Wiley) — separation-train synthesis; supporting Canadian tax practice from the Canada Revenue Agency Capital Cost Allowance classes and the half-year rule.
