Estimating the cost of carbon capture and storage on a coal-fired power plant in Southeast Asia

摘要

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a potential method of reducing the carbon emissions from a coal-fired power plant. Coal-fired power generation is predicted to increase significantly within Southeast Asia over the coming decades and although, at present, there is no legislative or commercial driver to install the technology at coal-fired power plants in the region, the situation may change and power plant developers need to understand the potential costs of installing this technology as a retrofit solution or on a new-build project. This paper presents some methods and data that can be used to estimate the cost of the technology on a particular retrofit or new-build coal project in Southeast Asia. The lack of any open source detailed Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) studies on specific projects within the region makes cost benchmarking challenging but there are a number of useful data sources available that can be used.