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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 Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / 400,000 adt/y production / 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%
▸Direct Field Costs$321.6M
Engineering-Procured Materials$18.1M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$32.2M
Contingency$32.2M
▸Interest During Construction$52.4M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$37.9M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$444.0M
Cleveland Cliffs / Burns Harbor
CO₂ captured
2,800,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
79MW
CO₂ concentration
21.9%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$445.8M
Carbon Capture Island Equipment$116.6M
Steam and Power System Equipment$66.4M
Materials$190.1M
Labor$23.7M
Blast Furnace Gas Processing Equipment$48.1M
▸Indirect Field Costs$66.9M
EPC Fees$66.9M
▸Contingency & Escalation$67.5M
Contingency$67.5M
▸Interest During Construction$74.5M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$121.4M
Financing Cost$15.7M
Pre-production Cost$15.0M
Inventory Capital$3.7M
Other's owners cost$87.0M
Total Capex$776.1M
Southern Company / Plant Barry
CO₂ captured
1,632,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
18.4MW
CO₂ concentration
6.7%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$1.10B
Civil and Structural$157.7M
Piping and Ducting$219.2M
NGCC Base Modifications Equipment$23.0M
Exhaust Gas Recirculation System Equipment$60.4M
Gas Turbine Modifications Equipment$47.3M
CO2 Capture System (DCC, Absorber, Stripper and Reboiler) Equipment$169.2M
CO2 Compression Equipment$60.9M
Cooling Water System (CCS Cooling Tower, Cooling Water Circulation Pumps and Heat Exchangers) Equipment$27.2M
CCS Balance of Plant (OSBL) Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Interfaces to NGCC$46.8M
Initial fill of CCS inventory (Solvent and Activated Carbon)'$29.9M
Labor$210.3M
Foundations$50.0M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$192.4M
Contingency$192.4M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$1.29B