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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

Natural GasFEED· Calpine· 2023-05-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
500,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
30.4MW
CO₂ concentration
5.2%vol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$12.2M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Variable OpEx$44.1M
Consumables$4.3M
Natural gas fuel cost$39.1M
Waste disposal$0.7M
Total Opex$56.4M

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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$19.1M
Property taxes & insurance$4.0M
Operating labor$2.0M
Maintenance labor$12.1M
Admin & support labor$1.0M
▸Variable OpEx$24.3M
Solvent & chemicals$3.8M
Natural gas fuel cost$12.9M
Electricity$7.0M
Waste disposal$0.6M
Total Opex$43.5M

Nutrien Redwater Nitrogen Operations

AmmoniaFEED· Nutrien· 2024-11-01Project page ↗
CO₂ captured
747,155t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
7.0%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$23.8M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Variable OpEx$23.4M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Opex$47.2M