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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 / Capture of CO2 in both Kraft & Multi-boilers
Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,749,600t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
28.5MW
CO₂ concentration
15.0%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$366.5M
Multi-fuel boiler: booster fan and ductwork$0.3M
Steam turbine island modifications$9.6M
Auxiliary boiler modifications$36.3M
Waste water treatment$4.8M
Common flue gas stack$1.1M
Direct Contact Cooler$5.0M
Amine absorber section$35.3M
Amine circulation system$3.3M
Stripper section$77.0M
CO2 Compression and dehydration$18.7M
Auxiliaries$1.2M
Other direct material cost$25.4M
Construction$98.6M
EPC and other costs$49.2M
Recovery Boiler: booster fan and ductwork$0.6M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$36.7M
Contingency$36.7M
▸Interest During Construction$59.7M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$43.2M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$506.0M
Mustang Station Power Plant
CO₂ captured
853,644t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
52.0%
Parasitic load
46MW
CO₂ concentration
3.8%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M
Solvent Pumping and Conditioning$56.0M
Absorber$37.0M
Wash Water System$33.9M
Buildings & Facilities$31.8M
Process Utilities$29.7M
CO2 Compression Equipment$24.2M
Flue Gas Systems$21.6M
Solvent Reclaiming$19.6M
Spare Parts, First Fills, Commodity Freight$18.1M
Stripper, CO2 Conditioning$17.4M
Steam Generation$15.2M
Solvent Heat Exchangers$9.5M
Solvent Storage$6.5M
E&I Infrastructure$63.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M
Indirect Field Costs$93.1M
Contractor’s Profit$60.1M
Engineering$37.0M
Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)$19.5M
▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M
Contingency$104.6M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$28.0M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$726.4M
Holcim / Ste. Genevieve Cement Plant
CO₂ captured
3,056,339t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
60MW
CO₂ concentration
20.3%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$900.4M
Accessory Electric Plant$62.8M
Cooling Water System$39.2M
Buildings & Structure$54.9M
Improvements to Site$23.5M
CO2 Compression Equipment$31.4M
Flue Gas Cleanup$39.2M
Ductwork and Stack$62.8M
Labor$115.5M
Instrumentation and Control$7.8M
Carbon Capture Plant$282.6M
Feedwater & Misc. Balance of Plant Equipment & Systems$180.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$517.7M
Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee$517.7M
▸Contingency & Escalation$250.5M
Contingency$250.5M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$71.0M
Financing Cost$50.7M
Pre-production Cost$9.5M
Inventory Capital$10.8M
Total Capex$1.74B