Food Plant Economics

This book takes the well developed concepts of process engineering economics and applies them to the food industry. It covers the range of topics from raw food materials to final packaged product. It systematically presents favorable economic analysis methods suitable for most techno-economic studies concerning food plants, integrating the appropriate data. It features computer spreadsheets to implement proposed methods and data. It includes complete information flow diagrams for various economic problems, flow sheets of food plants, diagrams of process equipment, generalized equations for estimation of various economic magnitudes, cost data and characteristics of food plants, tables of food engineering properties, and application examples.