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CapEx: It matters how you slice it.

Confusion about capital cost categories can cause problems in early stage cost modeling.

Cyclotron Road & Techonomics: Cost modeling for science entrepreneurs

Cyclotron Road is a technology incubator embedded at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. It’s a home for innovators whose ideas are too chall...

Upcoming AIChE webinar

AIChE approached me with the idea of producing a one-hour live webinar related to my recent article for Chemical Engineer Progress on spr...

Pro Tip: Searchable Excel Stream Tables with VBA

Note: This article was originally published in AIChE's ChEnected blog. The astute process engineer loves building stream tables in Excel....

AIChE ChEnected guest blog: 'What's the most important question for your R&D breakthroug

I wrote this article as a guest blogger for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers blog, ChEnected. Check out the original and othe...

Using Monte Carlo Analysis in Technology Development: Quantifying risk due to uncertainty

“It is an inescapable fact that estimates of resource requirements for future systems are beset with uncertainty. The question is not whe...

Cognitive bias & technology development

“In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant cognitive bias. Because optimistic bias...

Investing in new chemical technologies

Investing in a new chemical technology is different than, for example, investing in a new mobile app. It’s not like you can lock a bunch...

Tornado diagrams in technology development

Tornado diagrams are one of my favorite tools for visually representing the results of a techno-economic model. They highlight the most i...

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