As expected, the price effect tended to decrease with the proportion of wood in the total production cost of a product.
Sensitivity analyses have been carried out on the main process factors; these are product price, production capacity, total production cost, capital investment and the tipping fee.
The economy of the commercial production of these materials is affected by the downstream processing costs which are about 60% of the total production cost of many biological products.
The results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach to reduce the total production cost for real time operation.
Separation and dehydration process is a key step to reduce the total production cost of lignocellulosic bioethanol.
Recovery and purification of organic acids produced in fermentation constitutes a significant fraction of total production cost.
Finally, a profitability evaluation of new proposed and basic systems is performed based on total production cost and return on investment for three countries: Iran, France and America.
Results show that making adjustments benefits the manufacturers by reducing total production cost and avoiding revenue loss, which outweighs the extra costs, especially for high value-added products.
The goal is to design an online mechanism that maximizes the social welfare, that is, the sum of the buyers' values less the total production cost.
Total production cost found for oil palm biodiesel production ranged between 0.23 and 0.31 USD/L and Jatropha biodiesel production costs were between 0.84 and 0.87 USD/L.
Validamycin A (VAL-A) is an important agricultural antibiotic produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus 5008, which uses starch as carbon source occupying about 20% of total production cost.
