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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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Calpine / Deer Park Energy Center
CO₂ captured
500,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
30.4MW
CO₂ concentration
5.2%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$415.7M
Feedwater & Miscellaneous Balance of Plant Systems$15.1M
Combustion Turbine & Accessories$31.0M
Steam Turbine & Accessories$18.3M
Cooling Water System$7.5M
Accessory Electric Plant$6.7M
Instrumentation & Control$9.4M
Improvements to Site$0.6M
Material Cost$52.9M
CO2 Capture System$150.7M
Direct Labor$96.8M
HRSG, Ductwork, & Stack$26.8M
▸Indirect Field Costs$83.1M
Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee$83.1M
▸Contingency & Escalation$76.7M
Project Contingency$76.7M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$19.9M
Pre-production Cost$16.7M
Inventory Capital$3.2M
Total Capex$595.5M
Finnish Market Pulp Mill / Capture of CO2 in Kraft, Multi-fuel Boilers & Lime Kiln
Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,946,575t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
31.4MW
CO₂ concentration
15.7%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$325.6M
Lime Kiln: booster fan and ductwork$0.2M
Multi-fuel boiler: booster fan and ductwork$0.3M
Steam turbine island modifications$10.0M
Waste water treatment$4.5M
Common flue gas stack$1.1M
Direct Contact Cooler$5.2M
Amine absorber section$36.8M
Amine circulation system$3.5M
Stripper section$80.3M
CO2 Compression and dehydration$9.8M
Auxiliaries$1.2M
Other direct material cost$26.5M
Construction$97.1M
EPC and other costs$47.4M
Recovery Boiler: booster fan and ductwork$0.6M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$32.6M
Contingency$32.6M
▸Interest During Construction$52.9M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$36.8M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$447.8M
Peterhead Power Station (Aberdeenshire)
CO₂ captured
1,000,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
—
▸Direct Field Costs$331.4M
Water System$13.8M
CO2 Compression Equipment$37.7M
Construction$119.6M
Carbon Capture Plant$159.6M
Electrical and Instrumentation / E&I$0.8M
▸Indirect Field Costs$89.7M
Indirect Field Costs$73.4M
Engineering$16.3M
▸Contingency & Escalation—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$6.6M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$427.7M