This page lists useful sources of data for those conducting techno-economic assessments (TEAs).
The list is not comprehensive as there are many possible sources of the kind of data necessary to conduct TEA, but it should be helpful for getting started. If you would like to recommend a source to be added to this page, please contact us.
Materials and Equipment
- AssessCCUS Capital Equipment Cost Database
- Custom database of capital equipment cost estimation data using harmonized approach
- Alibaba
- Select equipment and raw materials prices and equipment power ratings
- Amazon
- Select equipment and raw materials prices and equipment power ratings
- CatCost
- Spreadsheet containing various bulk chemical price quotes, Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) values, and data on equipment scaling and pricing
- MilliporeSigma (formerly Sigma-Aldrich)
- Retail, low-volume pricing for various chemicals and other necessary lab materials
- McMaster-Carr
- Retail pricing for wide variety of hardware, tools, materials, and industrial equipment
- Economic Feasibility for CO2 Conversion Pathways
- Market prices and projected production costs for various CO2-utilizing chemicals
- ChemAnalyst Chemical Prices
- Large repository with regional chemical prices and some market sizes
- BusinessAnalytiq Chemical Prices
- Large repository with regional chemical prices and manufacturing steps
- Google Scholar
- Source for academic and grey literature that may contain useful TEA parameters. Helpful for some cost metrics but also scaling factors, power ratings, and other technical aspects of process modeling
- U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory Capital Cost Scaling Methodology
- Report providing standard basis for capital cost scaling. Includes factors for various pieces of equipment
- Chapter 6 – Costing and Project Evaluation from Chemical Engineering Design textbook
- Factors, methods, scaling formulas, and more to help calculate costs of chemical processes
- Appendix D: Capital Cost Guidelines from Rules of Thumb in Engineering Practice
- Cost and scaling data for many common pieces of equipment
- Capcost 2017 from Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes, 5th Edition
- Spreadsheet with equipment cost and scaling data
- Equipment Cost Calculator from Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, 5th Edition
- Simple online tool for rough equipment cost estimates (uses CEPCI of 390.4 from January 2002, so results need to be adjusted accordingly)
- Matches Equipment Cost Estimation Tool
- Online tool for estimating variety of equipment costs
- Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook
- Popular chemical engineering textbook with data on chemical processes, reactor modeling, economics, and much more (section 9 focuses on process economics and may be the most helpful for TEA)
- The Engineering ToolBox
- Miscellaneous engineering data, converters, and explanations
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service Offices by State
- Extension offices in each state may provide costs related to producing various agricultural products
Labor and Finance
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Labor costs for a variety of occupations
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator
- Can help inflate monetary values for consistent comparison
- Prof. Aswath Damodaran’s cost of capital for U.S. industries index
- Costs of capital (equity and debt) for various U.S. industries
- Prof. Aswath Damodaran finance metric datasets
- Useful finance-related datasets with metrics like historical returns, costs of capital, tax rates, debt ratios, and more, with geographical breakdowns
Energy
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Energy trends and prices
- U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory TEA Section
- Cost and performance information related to renewable energy usage
- U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Annual Technology Baseline
- Current and projected costs of renewable energy
- U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Levelized Cost of Energy Calculator
- Interactive tool for calculating the cost of energy generation
- International Renewable Energy Agency Cost Data
- Cost data and statistics related to renewable energy, sustainable transportation, and energy storage
- Lazard Levelized Cost Reports
- Levelized cost data for energy, energy storage, and hydrogen
Carbon Dioxide
- U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory Energy Analysis Tools
- Analytical tools database that contains a wide variety of tools with cost and performance information for fossil fuel plants and CO2 capture systems
- U.S. Department of Energy Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Carbon Management Report
- Report with wide variety of cost information relevant to carbon management
- An assessment of CCS costs, barriers and potential
- Journal article with useful cost data for CO2 capture and transportation
- NETL Cost of Industrial CO2 Capture
- Report detailing point-source capture costs and assumptions
- NETL CO2 Transport Cost Model, Overview, and User’s Manual
- Excel-based model for transport costs of carbon dioxide