1. Capital Cost Estimating Q&A

2. Today Suggest you review Equipment Costing Folder on CD Is this real?
What do we do?
How does it work?
Methods of estimating
Using CapCost
What is a “Capital Cost?”
‘Dealing’ with CapCost limitations

3. Is This Real ?
Question:
We seem to be applying simplifications and assumptions that this project doesn’t seem very ‘real.’
Your thoughts?

4. Question 1: What do we do? We will use CapCost which integrates
Estimation of equipment costs
Utility costs
Raw material costs and product revenue
Other costs
Profitability analysis
Sensitivity analysis

5. CapCost See the material in the CapCost folder
Install the program from the CD that came with the text (run install.html)
View the movies on the CD (run cost.html) with a computer that has speakers and Quicktime (at home or use the TEAM computer)
Run Capcost.xls and look through it

6. How Does It Work?

7. Equipment Factors x Factors Direct Field Cost (DFC)
Direct Field Labour (DFL)
Indirect Field Cost (IFC)
Home Office Engineering
Total Project Cost (ITC)
Allowances
0.25 x DFC
1.0 to 1.6 x DFL
Equipment Purchase
Price
Equipment
Factors
“Off Sites” Cost
x Factors

8. Estimate Equipment Cost DIRECT FIELD COSTS
bulk materials (piping, valves, instruments) & labour to install
off-sites (pipe racks, rail spurs …)
INDIRECT FIELD COSTS
engineering, freight, insurance, overhead, const supervision
CONTINGENCY AND FEES
first fill of plant, taxes, duties
escalation
TOTAL PROJECT
(CAPITAL)
COST

9. Method 1: Lang Factored Estimate
Total Capital Cost =
Flang * (Sum Of Purchased Cost of Equipment)
Flang = for fluid processing plant

10. Method 2: The CapCost Approach
Equipment Parameters (Pressure, MOC, Size, Hp …)
“Base Cost” = Purchase Cost of Equipment
- in Carbon Steel and 0 barg
Which One Do We Want?
Bare Module Factor = f (Factorpressure, Factormaterial)
BARE MODULE COST (Directs and Indirects)
- installed equipment in actual materials and actual pressure
Module Factor = 1.18
MODULE COST OF PLANT
- for expansion to an existing Plant -contingency 15%, fees 3%
CHEE
470 Stops
Here
Grass Roots Factor = 1.30
GRASS ROOTS COST OF PLANT
- infrastruction (utilities, off-sites aux. Buildings, product storage, loading and unloading facilities ...)

11. Determine Equipment Cost
Note: Price for Carbon Steel Construction and 0 Bar(g)
Fixed Tube exch with
28 m2 =
$6500
Convert To
Today’s $’s using the CEPCI value

12. Factor to Today’s Cost
$6500 * (1999 CECPI / 1996 CECPI) = today’s cost
$6500 x (390.6 / 381.7) = $6650 in 1999

13. Pressure Factor (Fp)
Pressure Factor
Fp = 1.14

14. Material Factor (Fm)

15. Bare Module Factor FBM Cost of Equipment Installed Fp Fm 1.14 x 3
= 3.42
Therefore FBM = 7
Bare Module Cost
= Base Cost x FBM
= $6650 x 7
= $46,550

16. “Module Cost” Of Plant
Add Contingency and Fees (building permits, environmental permits etc.)
Module Cost = 1.18 S (of Bare Module Cost for all equipment)
Module Cost = 1.18 x $46,550 = $ 54,900

17. Now a Short Demo
A movie to illustrate the capital cost sections of CapCost
One of the sheets in an Excel workbook
The utilities, raw materials and cash flow sections will be covered later in the Economic Analysis workshop

18. Questions
What do we do when equipment is larger than CapCost can cost?
Split it up into equal sized pieces
Get a cost in CapCost and then apply the capacity factor exponent
new cost=old cost x capacity ratio0.6

19. Special Equipment CapCost has an equipment type “User Defined”
If you know the cost of something, you can supply
A name
Equipment cost
Bare Module Cost
Set the first factor to 1, ignore the second

20. User Defined Equipment

21. Question
What is a capital cost?

22. Capital Cost What’s “Capital ?”
Capital is the money required to build a plant or facility
It’s separated from “Expense” money because of the Tax implications imposed by Revenue Canada, IRS, etc.

23. Facility Timeline Facility Creation Facility Operation Conceptual
Engineering
Detailed Engineering
& Construction
Start-up
Expense $
Capital $
Expense $
Expense $
- Operating Expenses
-Depreciation
Capital Cost

24. Capital vs Expense
Once the plant is running ‘Expenses’ are small items or costs which are incurred yearly, or have about a 1 year life.
i.e. Software, Office supplies, wages, advertising, heat, lighting, ...
When Calculating Yearly Income Subtract your Expenses From Your Income

25. Capital vs Expense
‘Capital’ are expensive items or items which have more than a year of life.
i.e. House, lawnmower, TV, computer, chemical plant equip, first fill of chemicals
Revenue Canada etc. only allow you to subtract a % of the Capital every year to account for the wearing out of the facility (depreciation).
This is called the “Capital Cost Allowance”

26. Capital vs Expense Capital Cost Allowance ( CCA )
Works Like a Bank Account
Revenue Canada allow a % of the remaining asset value to be claimed
Remaining
Asset Value
Time (years)

27. CCA Classes

28. Capital vs Expense Revenue Canada Treat Depreciation per above
More common (?) to treat Depreciation with a straight line for the economic analysis
10 year depreciation, therefore 10% of capital is ‘expensed’ per year

29. Taxable Income Income That’s Taxable (Net Income)
Taxable Income = Income - Expenses CCA
Can’t use CCA if Expenses are greater than Income (can’t use CCA to claim a loss)
CCA can be ‘banked’ for later years where profit is occurring

30. Small Business Tax- Revenue

31. Small Business Tax - Expenses
CCA

32. Capital - The Point
Capital is only allowed to be ‘depreciated’ over years and thus it’s ability to minimize taxable income is limited.
Expenses are claimed in the year they’re paid. They’re better for minimizing your taxes.
The Games People play

33. The Capital Cost Estimate
The tax implications of Capital money requires that you know how much Capital was spent on any asset.
The business financial analysis (NPV etc.) requires that you know the Capital Cost and the Operating Cost well ahead of actually spending any significant amounts of money.

34. Capital Cost Estimate Summary:
The cost to initially build the facility which will be depreciated over time.

35. Question: CapCost - arrggh!
CapCost does not change price when we change the maximum pressure. What’s wrong?

36. Off The Shelf Items ASME Code
Piping, Valves, Pumps and most equipment have been standarized in design pressures of the connecting Flange
Standards are called 150, 300, 600, 900, 1500, 2500 “lb” flange ratings.
A 150lb rating  150 psig rating, temperature is important in the ultimate strength of the item
Along with standard flanges are standard pipe wall thickness (Sch 40, Sch 80 etc.)
ASME
Code

37. Flange Rating

38. Heat Exchanger Standards
TEMA - Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association
dictates minimum requirements for exchanger mechanical design
Legislation does not require TEMA standards be used.

39. ASME- Pressure Vessel Standards
ASME Code
It started in Chicago after a major explosion in a shoe factory that had a boiler. The boiler explosion caused the government to start regulating pressure vessels (including boilers).
A tool for regulating manufacturers of pressure vessels, heating exchangers, and piping, not pumps, not compressors (no rotating equipment)

40. ASME- Pressure Vessel Standards
Since the explosion in Chicago codes were developed for the guidance in the calculation of pressure vessels, tables of metal strength vs temp
Safety factor of 4 has historically been applied to the mechanical strength of metal, recently (year 2000) it was reduced to 3.5

41. ASME Code Sections I - Power Boilers
II - Materials (properties i.e. allowable stresses)
III - Nuclear Power Plants
IV - Heating Boilers
V - Non Destructive Examination
VII - Guidelines for the Care and Operation of Heating Boilers
IX - Welding and Brazing Qualifications
X - Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Pressure Vessels
XI - Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components

42. Minimum Design and CapCost
Allowing CapCost to choose a minimum makes sense since the manufacturer would do the same.

43. The Final Screen