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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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$32.6M
Property taxes & insurance$18.2M
Maintenance material$8.0M
Operating labor$3.3M
Maintenance labor$1.9M
Admin & support labor$1.2M
▸Variable OpEx$16.7M
Solvent & chemicals$3.4M
Natural gas fuel cost$9.5M
Electricity$3.8M
Total Opex$49.3M

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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Variable OpEx—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Opex$176.0M

Finnish Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / Capture of CO2 in Kraft, Multi-fuel Boilers & Lime Kiln

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,946,575t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
31.4MW
CO₂ concentration
15.7%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$18.9M
Property taxes & insurance$4.2M
Operating labor$2.0M
Maintenance labor$11.7M
Admin & support labor$1.0M
▸Variable OpEx$33.4M
Solvent & chemicals$4.2M
Natural gas fuel cost$19.4M
Electricity$9.0M
Waste disposal$0.7M
Total Opex$52.2M