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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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Calpine / Deer Park Energy Center

Natural GasFEED· Calpine· 2023-05-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

500,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

30.4MW

CO₂ concentration

5.2%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$415.7M

Feedwater & Miscellaneous Balance of Plant Systems—

Combustion Turbine & Accessories—

HRSG, Ductwork, & Stack—

Steam Turbine & Accessories—

Cooling Water System—

Accessory Electric Plant—

Instrumentation & Control—

Improvements to Site—

CO2 Capture System—

Material Cost—

Direct Labor—

▸Indirect Field Costs$83.1M

Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee—

▸Contingency & Escalation$76.7M

Project Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$19.9M

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Total Capex$595.5M

Finnish Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / Capture of CO2 in both Kraft Boiler & Lime Kiln

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,675,922t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.9%

Parasitic load

26.9MW

CO₂ concentration

15.5%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$348.1M

Recovery Boiler: booster fan and ductwork—

Lime Kiln: booster fan and ductwork—

Multi-fuel boiler: booster fan and ductwork—

Steam turbine island modifications—

Auxiliary boiler modifications—

Waste waster treatment—

Common flue gas stack—

Direct Contact Cooler—

Amine absorber section—

Amine circulation system—

Stripper section—

CO2 Compression and dehydration—

Auxiliaries—

Other direct material cost—

Construction—

EPC and other costs—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$34.8M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$56.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$41.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$480.6M

Holcim / Ste. Genevieve Cement Plant

CementFEED· University of Illinois· 2024-08-29Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

3,056,339t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

60MW

CO₂ concentration

20.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$900.4M

Instrumentaiton and Control—

Feedwater & Misc. Balance of Plant Equipment & Systems—

Accessory Electric Plant—

Cooling Water System—

Buldings & Structure—

Improvements to Site—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Flue Gas Cleanup—

Ductwork and Stack—

Labor—

Carbon Capture Plant—

▸Indirect Field Costs$517.7M

Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee—

▸Contingency & Escalation$250.5M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$71.0M

Financing Cost—

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Total Capex$1.74B