0 0 votes The capital cost $\text{(C C)}$ of an industrial equipment varies with its capacity $(S)$ as $\text{C C} \propto S^{\beta}$. The rule-of-thumb value of the exponent $\beta$ is $0.4$ $0.6$ $0.8$ $1.0$ Plant Design and Economics gatech-2025 plant-design-and-economics numerical-answers + – Shubham Sharma 2 1.5k points answer Follow 0 reply