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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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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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$59.9M
Maint. / property taxes / insurance$56.0M
Operating labor$3.9M
▸Variable OpEx$84.2M
Electricity$80.0M
Waste disposal$4.2M
Total Opex$144.1M

Southern Company / Plant Barry

Compression and Dehydration· Trimeric· 2020-02-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
2,400,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
—
Utilization
95.0%
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
99.0%vol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$2.0M
Maintenance material$1.3M
Operating labor$0.7M
▸Variable OpEx$12.9M
Dehydration$0.6M
Electricity$12.3M
Total Opex$14.9M

CEMEX / Balcones Cement Plant

Cementpre-FEED· Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)· 2022-06-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
744,235t/yr
Capture efficiency
75.0%
Utilization
90.0%
Parasitic load
36MW
CO₂ concentration
14.9%vol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$6.2M
Maintenance material$2.3M
Operating labor$2.3M
Maintenance labor$1.6M
▸Variable OpEx$27.9M
Solvent & chemicals$2.7M
Electricity$25.1M
Total Opex$34.0M