Table 5. Capital and Operating Costs of the Hybrid Extraction–Distillation Process for Different Feed Concentrations.

feed concentration (wt %)	5	10	20
capital cost (M$)	10.584	8.987	8.373
utility cost (M$/y)	2.530	1.508	1.129
normalized CAPEX ($/kg FA)	0.066	0.056	0.052
normalized OPEX ($/kg FA)	0.316	0.189	0.141
total cost ($/kg FA)	0.382	0.245	0.193