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DOE Selection Criteria and Goals
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... These were presented to the committee at its first meeting on 20-21 November 2000 (Hannon, 2000a, by, and represent the basis for this report. DOE SELECTION CRITERIA AND GOALS The TWO and its associated committees and consultants employed systematic and relatively transparent approaches for devising quantifiable evaluation criteria.
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... 2. Project cost reduction potential Potential that cost savings in the total project cost can be identified (generally due to flow sheet or equipment arrangement changes that would allow facility footprint reductions)
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... ~ all of the exercises the resulting total scores for the three alternative processes all fell within the range of 0.60 to 0.69; in one exercise the identical total score of 0.63 was calculated for all three alternative processes. The actual scoring and weightings were consensus values arrived at in review meetings among the experts following extensive discussion.
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