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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 22, 2017
International Conference on Advances in Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering (ASEE17)
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| Article Number | 00183 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20172200183 | |
| Published online | 07 November 2017 | |
The effect of inflation rate on the cost of medical waste management system
Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ul. Wiejska 45E, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
* Corresponding author: m.walery@pb.edu.pl
This paper describes the optimization study aimed to analyse the impact of the parameter describing the inflation rate on the cost of the system and its structure. The study was conducted on the example of the analysis of medical waste management system in north-eastern Poland, in the Podlaskie Province. The scope of operational research carried out under the optimization study was divided into two stages of optimization calculations with assumed technical and economic parameters of the system. In the first stage, the lowest cost of functioning of the analysed system was generated, whereas in the second one the influence of the input parameter of the system, i.e. the inflation rate on the economic efficiency index (E) and the spatial structure of the system was determined. With the assumed inflation rate in the range of 1.00 to 1.12, the highest cost of the system was achieved at the level of PLN 2022.20/t (increase of economic efficiency index E by ca. 27% in comparison with run 1, with inflation rate = 1.12).
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