However, standard extraction mechanisms such as cell maceration and soxhlet extraction have limitations such as high solvent consumption, large operating cost and extended operation times which frequently result in lower yields [ 44].
Though mechanical drying, powered by electricity or fuel, help in producing quality products in mass scale, they are seldom adopted by small-scale entrepreneurs and farmers of most developing countries, due to heavy installation costs involved and large operating cost because of it being energy intensive process [12].
This combination also "would generate the largest patronage and would require the largest operating costs and capital outlays," says a Fed eral project status report cir culated among Congressmen.
Airlines have typically fought regulation that would force the adoption of such new technologies, saying that the cost of fuel is one of their largest operating costs and already provides an incentive for them to increase efficiency.
Any business owner facing such a high price increase for one of their largest operating costs will clearly have to make some stark choices.
The main challenge is to optimize regulation in office buildings, theaters, museums, and schools, where there are large fluctuations and heavy operating costs.
While electric utilities pay little or nothing for their water, the largest operating cost for water utilities is often their electricity bill.
Consumption rates and costs of these processes can be substantial; moreover, destruction of the reagent that is often the single largest operating cost centre for the process plant represents an additional economic downside.
In 2012, the city moved to phase out a payroll tax that is based on staff in favor of a gross receipts tax based off of gross earnings, a boon for burgeoning tech startups with large overhead operating costs but low revenue.
As one of the largest corporate operating costs is moving things cheaply and efficiently from point A to point B, cargo transportation is another arena about to be disrupted by autonomous vehicles.
They also have large installation and operating costs.
