Carbon Capture Costs: FEED & pre-FEED Cost Reports

Dastur International Inc., with Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., is designing a carbon capture system for the 5 mtpa integrated steel plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana, to capture 50–70% of CO₂ emissions from blast furnace gas. The system will combine a gas flow distribution network, a specialized conditioning process, and ION Clean Energy’s solvent-based capture technology with 90–98% efficiency, with water-gas shift reactors enabling higher capture rates. Dastur will lead overall plant integration and engineering, while ION designs the capture island and Dastur Energy optimizes design and energy performance.

Prairie State Generating Company is conducting a FEED study for a carbon capture facility on its 816 MWe Unit #2 in Illinois, using Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ KM CDR Process™ with KS-21™ solvent. Designed to treat all flue gas from the unit, it would be the world’s largest post-combustion capture plant, compressing CO₂ for off-site sequestration. The project will leverage engineering support from Kiewit, Sargent & Lundy, and MHI.

Bechtel National Inc., with the Electric Power Research Institute, is conducting a FEED study to retrofit Panda Power Funds’ 758 MWe natural gas combined cycle plant in Sherman, Texas, with a post-combustion CO₂ capture system. Using an open-access design and a conventional amine absorber-stripper system with a non-proprietary solvent such as MEA, the project targets CO₂ capture for enhanced oil recovery.