MV, Inc.
has developed a powerful tool for determining the economic viability of
a new technology, or the potential of an existing technology, its brand
of the Dynamic Financial Models (DFM). MV's DFM typically consist of
these sections:
The User Input
Tables:
- Design Criteria
- Raw Material
Analysis
- Raw Material Costs
- Product
Specifications
- Product Prices
Joint Development:
- Process Flow
Diagrams (PFD's)
Model output:
- Material Balance
- Energy Balance
- PFD
- Operating Costs
MV's DFM should be
able to predict the impact on profitability of
- Various Process
Alternatives
- Various Feedstocks
- Plant Capacity
- Eliminating a
Process Bottleneck
- Changes in Raw
Material Costs
- Changes in Product
Prices
- Deviation from
Ideal Results
- Anything That Can
Be Quantified
Typical
Program Flowsheet for a Techno-Economic Model.
Why Bother
with a Model?
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