Cost Estimation and Project Management Volume 2: Startups, Revamps and Turnarounds - electronic book

• Step-by-step guidance for capital projects, startups, and revamps
• Practical strategies for cost estimation, lifecycle costing, and benchmarking
• Insights into process optimization, materials selection, and plant safety
• Methods for effective project planning, scheduling, and risk management
• Support for environmental compliance and employee management during complex projects

• Process and project engineers
• Plant managers and operators
• Maintenance and reliability engineers
• Cost engineers and project managers
• Design and materials engineers in CPI facilities

Articles Include

• Benchmarking for Success
• Condition-Based Maintenance Management Enhances Reliability
• Revamps: Strategies for a Smooth Turnaround
• Owners and Contractors: Key Metrics Improve Performance
• Energy Benchmarking
• Total Cost Analysis Aids Purchasing Negotiations
• Revamping Your Process Plant
• Distillation: Avoid Problems During Tower Startup
• Use Simplified Lifecycle-Cost Computations to Justify Upgrades
• Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI
• Ten Things You May Not Know About Liquid Mixing Scaleup
• Plant Revamps and Turnarounds: Some Lessons Learned
• Principles of P&ID Development
• Column Revamps: From Outside to Inside
• Managing Large Chemical Plant Startups
• Materials Selection in the CPI
• Process Safety and Functional Safety in Support of Asset Productivity and Integrity
• Optimizing the Design-to-Cost Cycle
• Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps
• Managing Small and Medium-sized Capital Projects
• Integrated Risk-Management Matrices
• Evaluating Preliminary Investment Feasibility
• Process Plant Layout — Becoming a Lost Art?
• Evaluating Green Projects: Modeling Improves Economic Benefits
• Capital and Production Costs: Improving the Bottom Line

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