A 50-kilowatt gas turbine has an investment cost of $39,000. It costs another $15,000 for shipping, insurance, site preparation, fuel lines, and fuel storage tanks. The operation and maintenance expense for this turbine is $350 per year. Additionally, the hourly fuel expense for running the turbine is $8.00 per hour, and the turbine is expected to operate 3,300 hours each year. The cost of dismantling and disposing of the turbine at the end of its 9-year life is $7,500. a. If the MARR is 12% per year, what is the annual equivalent life-cycle cost of the gas turbine? b. What percent of annual life-cycle cost is related to fuel? Click the icon to view the interest and annuity table for discrete compounding when the MARR is 12% per year. More Info a. The annual equivalent life-cycle cost of the gas turbine is $ Compound Amount Factor Present Worth Factor To Find F To Find P Compound Amount Factor To Find F Given P Given F Given A Present Worth Factor To Find P Given A To Find A To Find A Sinking Fund Factor Capital Recovery Factor Given F Given P N FIP PIF FIA PIA AIF AIP 1 1.1200 0.8929 1.0000 0.8929 1.0000 1.1200 2 1.2544 0.7972 2.1200 1.6901 0.4717 0.5917 3 1.4049 0.7118 3.3744 2.4018 0.2963 0.4163 4 1.5735 0.6355 4.7793 3.0373 0.2092 0.3292 5 1.7623 0.5674 6.3528 3.6048 0.1574 0.2774 6 1.9738 0.5066 8.1152 4.1114 0.1232 0.2432 7 2.2107 0.4523 10.0890 4.5638 0.0991 0.2191 8 2.4760 0.4039 12.2997 4.9676 0.0813 0.2013 9 2.7731 0.3606 14.7757 5.3282 0.0677 0.1877 10 3.1058 0.3220 17.5487 5.6502 0.0570 0.1770 Print Done - x