Qualitative and quantitative analysis in comparing prospective CWCs

Abstract

Qualitative analysis either involves traditional deductive logic beginning with assumptions and carefully deducing an outcome from them, or, a holistic approach in which all the factors and criteria involved are laid out in advance in a hierarchy or in a network system that allows for dependencies. Quantitative analysis involves estimating Life Cycle Costs to arrive at an economic equitable assessment of competing design alternatives considering total expenditures over its-entire economic life. The paper applies ualitative and Quantitative concepts to choose prospective designs of two configurations of the CWC i.e, the Vertical and the Horizontal orientations. Solutions are proposed to evaluate overall performance of the CWC.