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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%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$321.6M

Engineering-Procured Materials—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$32.2M

Contingency—

▸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

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

Linde Hydrogen Plant

Hydrogenpre-FEED· Praxair· 2022-11-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,360,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

18.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$327.0M

Civil and Structural—

▸Indirect Field Costs$32.0M

Engineering—

▸Contingency & Escalation$81.0M

Project Contingency—

Process Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$10.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$481.5M