This article originally appeared on Ecofys and is republished with permission.

An interactive tool allows users to create and visualize CO2 pipeline networks. Ecofys developed the online pipeline network assessment tool called CONNECT. It enables the user to connect multiple sources of CO2 with multiple storage locations into one or more networks.

Insights into local possibilities for transport pipelines and networks for CO2 are difficult to grasp. Understanding the required pipeline sizes, trajectories and costs are generally budget consuming exercises.

CONNECT has the ability to adjust the network as needed and provide instant information on the relevant network properties. The tool is based on Google Maps and combines databases on existing sources of CO2 and identified storage locations with geographical information, such as land use. Based on flow and cost-algorithms the tool provides information on the length of pipelines, flow through the pipeline, pipeline diameter, the number of years to fill the storage locations and the costs.

Get a tour through the tool below or sign up for a trial session at: ccs.ecofys.com.