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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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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
Southern Company / Plant Barry
CO₂ captured
4,200,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
—
Utilization
95.0%
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
99.0%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$153.0M
CO2 Compression Equipment$47.6M
Equipment installation, instrumentation and controls, piping, electrical, engineering, construction expenses, contractors’ fees, and process and project contingencies$102.0M
Dehydration$3.4M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$153.0M
Finnish Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / 400,000 adt/y production / Capture of CO2 in the Kraft Recovery Boiler only
Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,478,700t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
23.5MW
CO₂ concentration
14.7%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$321.6M
Steam turbine island modifications$9.6M
Auxiliary boiler modifications$24.2M
Waste water treatment$4.6M
Direct Contact Cooler$4.5M
Amine absorber section$31.8M
Amine circulation system$3.0M
Stripper section$69.3M
CO2 Compression and dehydration$16.8M
Auxiliaries$1.0M
Other direct material cost$22.9M
Construction$88.8M
EPC and other costs$42.3M
Recovery Boiler: booster fan and ductwork$0.6M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$32.2M
Contingency$32.2M
▸Interest During Construction$52.4M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$37.9M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$444.0M