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Carbon Capture Costs: FEED & pre-FEED Cost Reports

Carbon capture costs from pre-FEED and FEED studies across power, cement, steel, natural gas, hydrogen and other industrial sectors. Browse capital (capex) and operating (opex) cost estimates from publicly available engineering reports, drill down into cost buckets and line items, and compare up to three projects side-by-side.

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Mustang Station Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· University of Texas at Austin· 2022-01-07Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

853,644t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

52.0%

Parasitic load

46MW

CO₂ concentration

3.8%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M

E&I Infrastructure—

Solvent Pumping and Conditioning—

Absorber—

Wash Water System—

Buildings & Facilities—

Process Utilities—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Flue Gas Systems—

Solvent Reclaiming—

Spare Parts, First Fills, Commodity Freight—

Stripper, CO2 Conditioning—

Steam Generation—

Solvent Heat Exchangers—

Solvent Storage—

▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M

Indirect Field Costs—

Contractor’s Profit—

Engineering—

Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)—

▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$28.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$726.4M

Southern Company / Plant Barry

All· Trimeric· 2020-02-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

4,200,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

—

Utilization

95.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

99.0%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$153.0M

Dehydration—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Equipment installation, instrumentation and controls, piping, electrical, engineering, construction expenses, contractors’ fees, and process and project contingencies—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$153.0M

Milton R. Young Power Plant

CoalFEED· Minnkota Power Cooperative· 2023-02-20Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

4,297,145t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

83.3MW

CO₂ concentration

8.6%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.34B

Balance of Plant (Boiler, cooling tower, multipurpose building and substation)—

Earthwork Associated with Carbon Capture—

Water Supply and Treatment—

Wastewater—

Drainage—

Power Supply—

Controls & Internet—

Owner Facilities—

Impurity Removal and CO2 conditioning—

Enclosures & Buildings—

Carbon Capture Plant—

▸Indirect Field Costs$61.5M

Project Management—

Limited Notice to Proceed—

Services—

Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)—

▸Contingency & Escalation$470.0M

Owner's Cost Contingency—

EPC Contingency—

Escalation—

Regional Adjustment for Labor—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$71.2M

Spare Parts—

License fee—

Insurance—

Startup—

Miscellaneous—

Total Capex$1.95B