Back Cover: Early-Stage Capital Cost Estimation of Biorefinery Processes: A Comparative Study of Heuristic Techniques (ChemSusChem 17/2016)

The Back Cover Figure showsthe impact of plant capacity on the Investment cost, with the log scale illustrating economies-of-scale of biorefineries. The size of the bubbles reflects the uncertainty on Investment estimation, especially at the early stage when few process details are known. The Figure also indicates that the paper is addressed to chemists and provides them with basic cost estimation principles and relevant cost methods for early-stage appraisals. More details can be found in the Review by Tsagkari et al. on page 2284 in Issue 17, 2016(DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201600309).