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Revise UF_ZO costing defaults #1505

Open adam-a-a opened 1 month ago

adam-a-a commented 1 month ago

Costs assumed for ultrafiltration account for "total project costs" used in the source rather than direct equipment costs. We should revise to reflect the [reduced] cost relationship attributed to direct equipment costs.

Thus, we need to edit the ultra_filtration.yaml to reflect the desired costing. Tagging @kurbansitterley @zacharybinger @MuktaHardikar who were involved in this discussion.

kurbansitterley commented 1 month ago

This specific issue came from costing Softening > UF > RO treatment train for the SETO project. UF CAPEX came out to ~$10.5M while the RO+Pump came to ~$2.5M. Naturally, this raised some eyebrows.

This is an exemplar of the mismatch we have in CAPEX/OPEX "scope" (I don't know the proper term) for some unit models.

In the case of UF, the reference (Texas Water Board, 2016; Table 3.20 & 3.21) has two costing relationships for UF:

The fix here is to use the value from Table 3.21 for UF ZO as the default parameter and apply a TIC factor to be aligned with the RO costing approach.

However, there are likely other instances of such misaligned scope for our costing approaches that need to be considered. I imagine this is not something that will be addressed in the near future, but should be a primary issue moving forward when thinking about modifications to WaterTAP's costing framework/scope/etc.

Tagging @TimBartholomew for visibility.