An oil refinery finds that it is necessary to treat the waste liquids from a new process before discharging them into a stream. The treatment will cost $20,000 the first year, but process improvements will allow the costs to decline by $2,000 each year. As an alternative, an outside company will process the wastes for the fixed price of $10,000/year throughout the 7 year period, payable at the beginning of each year. Either way, there is no need to treat the wastes after 7 years. Use the annual worth method to determine how the wastes should be processed. The company's MARR is 14%. Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when the MARR is 14% per year.

An oil refinery finds that it is necessary to treat the waste liquids from a new process before discharging them into a stream. The treatment will cost $20,000 the first year, but process improvements will allow the costs to decline by $2,000 each year. As an alternative, an outside company will process the wastes for the fixed price of $10,000/year throughout the 7 year period, payable at the beginning of each year. Either way, there is no need to treat the wastes after 7 years. Use the annual worth method to determine how the wastes should be processed. The company's MARR is 14%. Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when the MARR is 14% per year.

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

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