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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 Multi-fuel Boiler only

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
270,658t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
4.4MW
CO₂ concentration
16.8%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$5.0M
Property taxes & insurance$0.9M
Operating labor$1.0M
Maintenance labor$2.7M
Admin & support labor$0.4M
▸Variable OpEx$2.0M
Solvent & chemicals$0.6M
Electricity$1.3M
Waste disposal$0.1M
Total Opex$7.1M

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

Technology Centre Mongstad

CoalLarge Pilot· Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)· 2023-08-15Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
5,658,960t/yr
Capture efficiency
70.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
182MW
CO₂ concentration
12.5%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$91.7M
Property taxes & insurance$45.1M
Maintenance material$20.6M
Operating labor$7.1M
Maintenance labor$13.7M
Admin & support labor$5.2M
▸Variable OpEx$149.9M
Water$3.1M
Solvent & chemicals$25.9M
Natural gas fuel cost$110.7M
Waste disposal$10.1M
Total Opex$241.6M