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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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Finnish Market Pulp Mill / Capture of CO2 in the Kraft Recovery Boiler only

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,478,700t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
23.5MW
CO₂ concentration
14.7%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$14.1M
Property taxes & insurance$3.1M
Operating labor$1.3M
Maintenance labor$9.2M
Admin & support labor$0.5M
▸Variable OpEx$9.7M
Solvent & chemicals$3.2M
Electricity$6.0M
Waste disposal$0.5M
Total Opex$23.8M

Nutrien Redwater Nitrogen Operations

AmmoniaFEED· Nutrien· 2024-11-01Project page ↗
CO₂ captured
1,778,645t/yr
Capture efficiency
99.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
7.0%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$60.7M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Variable OpEx$13.1M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Opex$73.7M

Linde / Port Arthur Facility

Hydrogenpre-FEED· Linde· 2023-12-04Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,435,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
92.0%
Utilization
90.0%
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
16.2%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$16.8M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Variable OpEx$43.9M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Opex$60.7M