For BSM concentrations at NSF, a time trend estimated at -0.04334 per annum (on the log scale) was applied, allowing forward and backward extrapolation.
Salary scales per annum for relevant personnel was converted to a per minute rate by dividing by the number of workable minutes per year.
Administrative staff costs were based on the Administrative Officer Level 2 Increment 8 pay scale or $49,177 per annum per full-time equivalent, including on-costs.
The primary reason for this is the absence of cost effective, small-scale (∼10,000 tonnes per annum), environmentally sound pulping technology.
In fact, the Bayer material science (BMS) organisation now produces this industrial synthesis on the scale of 103 ton per annum.
Technician time invested overall in the clinic amounted to 24.7 h per annum, costing £305.29 (based on current salary scales).
Scale build-up in oilfield processing lines costs the industry millions of dollars per annum in lost production and maintenance, and improved strategies to combat scale build-up through greater understanding of the very early stage of scale deposition would be of significant benefit.
As previously announced, a merger would deliver over $1bn of quantified pre-tax synergies per annum by the third full year following completion, together with superior competitive positioning, scale and diversity".
"We believe that the next scale-up of this technology to commercial quantities of 50,000 tonnes per annum can be achieved in Australia," he says.
According to a recent report (pdf) by the Carbon Trust, Innovate UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and Coventry University, remanufacturing typically uses 85% less energy than manufacturing, and on a global scale has the potential to offset more than 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum.
