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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 Lime Kiln only

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

197,008t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.9%

Parasitic load

2.8MW

CO₂ concentration

27.6%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$52.7M

Owner Facilities—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$5.3M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$8.6M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$5.9M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$72.4M

Holcim / Portland Cement Plant

Cementpre-FEED· Electricore· 2023-01-31Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,733,750t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

76MW

CO₂ concentration

10.1%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$292.8M

Modularization—

▸Indirect Field Costs$91.1M

BEC + Engineering, Construction, Management, Home Office & Contractor Premiums, Allowances & Freight, and Process & Project Contingencies—

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$27.6M

Pre-Production Costs, Inventory Capital, Financing Costs and Other Owner Costs—

Total Capex$411.5M

CRC / Elk Hills Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)· 2020-09-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,460,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.0%

Parasitic load

35MW

CO₂ concentration

4.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$444.7M

Solvent regeneration—

▸Indirect Field Costs$206.3M

Indirect Field Costs—

Home Office—

EPC Fees—

▸Contingency & Escalation$96.0M

Escalation—

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$47.8M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$794.8M