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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 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
Technology Centre Mongstad
CO₂ captured
5,658,960t/yr
Capture efficiency
70.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
182MW
CO₂ concentration
12.5%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$1.65B
Coal & Sorbent Prep & Feed Equipment$13.5M
Feedwater & Misc. Balance of Plant Systems Equipment$50.1M
Pulverized coal-fired boiler Equipment$297.9M
Flue Gas Cleanup Equipment$81.3M
CO2 Capture System Equipment$154.4M
CO2 Compression and Purification Equipment$80.5M
HRSG, Ducting & Stack Equipment$8.7M
Steam Turbine Generator Equipment$131.5M
Cooling Water System Equipment$34.9M
Ash/Spent Sorbent Handling System Equipment$5.0M
Accessory Electric Plant Equipment$34.0M
Instrumentation & Control Equipment$12.6M
Improvements to Site Equipment$2.6M
Materials$66.3M
Labor$626.7M
Coal & Sorbent Handling Equipment$48.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$187.0M
Engineering$187.0M
▸Contingency & Escalation$418.3M
Project Contingency$417.5M
Process Contingency$0.8M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$507.6M
Financing Cost$60.9M
Pre-production Cost$66.8M
Inventory Capital$37.9M
Other's owners cost$342.0M
Total Capex$3.19B