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Table 2.

Related equations for the exergo economic analysis.

Description	Equation	Number of Eq.
The equipment cost rate (Dincer et al., 2017).	${\dot{Z}}_{k} = \frac{Φ_{k} \cdot P E C_{k} \cdot C R F}{3600 \cdot N}$	[6]
The Capital Recovery Factor (Dincer et al., 2017).	$C R F = \frac{i \cdot {(1 + i)}^{n}}{{(1 + i)}^{n} - 1}$	[7]
The cost rate of the streams (Bonyadi et al., 2018).	${\dot{C}}_{i} = c_{i} \cdot {\dot{E}}_{i}$	[8]
The exergo-economic balance for each component (Bonyadi et al., 2018; Ochoa et al., 2020).	${\dot{C}}_{P, k} = {\dot{C}}_{F, k} - {\dot{C}}_{L, k} + {\dot{Z}}_{k}$	[9]
The cost rate of exergy destruction of the equipment (Bonyadi et al., 2018).	${\dot{C}}_{D, k} = c_{F, k} \cdot {\dot{E}}_{D, k}$	[10]
The exergo-economic factor (Bonyadi et al., 2018).	$f_{K} = \frac{{\dot{Z}}_{k}}{{\dot{Z}}_{k} + c_{f, k} \cdot {\dot{E}}_{D, k}}$	[11]
The relative difference of equipment cost (Bonyadi et al., 2018).	$r_{K} = \frac{c_{P, k} - c_{F, k}}{c_{F, k}} = \frac{1 - ψ_{k}}{ψ_{k}} + \frac{{\dot{Z}}_{k}}{c_{f, k} \cdot {\dot{E}}_{P, k}}$	[12]