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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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CRC / Elk Hills Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)· 2020-09-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,460,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.0%

Parasitic load

35MW

CO₂ concentration

4.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$444.7M

Earthwork & Civil—

Concrete—

Structural Steel—

Capture Plant Equipment—

Utilities Equipment—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Piping—

Electrical and Control Systems—

Scaffolding, Painting, Insulation—

Modularization—

Procurement, Taxes & Duties—

Pre-commisioning and Startup—

▸Indirect Field Costs$206.3M

Indirect Field Costs—

Home Office—

EPC Fees—

▸Contingency & Escalation$96.0M

Escalation—

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$47.8M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$794.8M

Prairie State Generating

CoalFEED· University of Illinois· 2022-09-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

7,676,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

11.4%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.89B

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸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$228.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.12B

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