Products | Capacity (product t/h) | Investment | Normalized | Remark | Refs. |
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VFA | 6.2 | 16.2 | 1.92 | Â | [53] |
VFA | 22 | 65.1 | 3.27 | Scaled | [13] |
Butyric acid | 1.25 | 13.5 | 4.76 | Â | [54] |
VFA | 0.1 | 1.26 | 2.02 | Â | [9] |
Butyric acid | 0.27 | 1.03 | 1.03 | Â | This study |
- The units are in million US dollars. The scaled investment is computed from total investment using the ratio of the purification process in [53, 54]. The investment normalization is based on this study used a scaling-up exponent of 0.68 [55]