The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will produce an initial engineering design and cost estimate of a first-of-a-kind, full-scale, membrane-based post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture system retrofit to an existing U.S. coal power plant. The capture technology is provided by Membrane Technology and Research (MTR), and the power plant is Duke Energy’s East Bend Station (EBS) located on the Ohio River in Kentucky. The primary objective is to develop a design that will minimize the impact on the power plant by disrupting as little of the existing facilities as possible, minimizing the cost of each tonne of captured CO2 while also maintaining the net 600 megawatt (MW) output of EBS. This will be done by optimizing the percentage of CO2 captured from the coal-fired power plant (expected to be somewhere between 45 and 75% of the total CO2 in the flue gas). The initial phase will also examine options for integrating waste heat from the new combustion turbine (CT) with the existing coal plant in order to improve the thermal efficiency of the coal-fired unit. Once an optimal configuration is selected, an engineering design, sufficient in detail to support a +/-30% capital cost estimate, will be generated, along with a techno-economic analysis (TEA).