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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 both Kraft Boiler & Lime Kiln

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,675,922t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
26.9MW
CO₂ concentration
15.5%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$14.8M
Property taxes & insurance$3.2M
Operating labor$1.3M
Maintenance labor$9.7M
Admin & support labor$0.5M
▸Variable OpEx$10.0M
Solvent & chemicals$3.6M
Electricity$5.8M
Waste disposal$0.6M
Total Opex$24.8M

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%
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$56.0M

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