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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 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%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$385.8M

Cooling Water System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$38.6M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$62.9M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$45.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$532.7M

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

Holcim / Ste. Genevieve Cement Plant

CementFEED· University of Illinois· 2024-08-29Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

3,056,339t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

60MW

CO₂ concentration

20.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$900.4M

Material Cost—

▸Indirect Field Costs$517.7M

Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee—

▸Contingency & Escalation$250.5M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$71.0M

Financing Cost—

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Total Capex$1.74B