Carbon Capture Network — 3D

Genuine WebGL companion: CO₂ flows from an industrial source through a real 3D pipeline into a geological reservoir, driven by the same capture/transport/storage math as the 2D original

Elapsed

0.0 yr

Captured CO₂

— Kt/yr

Capture cost

— $M/yr

Compression

— MWh/yr

Maintenance

— $M/yr

Fill time

— yr

Reservoir level

Risk index

—%

1 · Sources & capture

Emissions520 Kt/yr

Capture efficiency87%

Capture cost$42/t

2 · Transport & pipeline

Pipeline length180 km

Throughput1800 t/day

Compression energy110 kWh/yr/t

3 · Geological storage

Reservoir capacity65 Mt

Injection rate1500 t/day

Monitoring cost$4M/yr

Playback

Simulation speed8 yr/s

Captured CO₂ (source → pipe)

Compressor station

Reservoir fill (low risk)

Reservoir fill (high risk)

Carbon Capture Network — 3D Sources-to-Storage Companion

This is a genuine Three.js/WebGL companion to the 2D Carbon Capture Network simulator. It renders the same three-stage CCS chain — an industrial emission source, a compressed CO₂ pipeline, and a geological storage reservoir — as a real orbitable 3D scene instead of three flat calculator panels, with animated particles carrying captured CO₂ down a genuine tube-geometry pipeline into an underground reservoir that visibly fills over simulated years.

The underlying math is identical to the original: captured CO₂ is emissions × efficiency with cost captured × $/t, compression energy is throughput × kWh/t × 365 / 1000 MWh/year with pipeline maintenance length × $12,000/km, and reservoir fill time is capacity(t) / (injection rate × 365) years with a risk index of min(1, monitoring/5 + 0.3) — exactly as in the 2D capture/transport/storage modules. Adjust any of the nine source, transport or storage parameters and the pipeline glow, compressor heat, particle flow rate and reservoir fill level all respond live; press Play to advance simulated years and watch the reservoir fill toward its computed fill time while the risk-tinted ring shifts from green to red.

Drag to orbit the source, pipeline and reservoir, scroll or pinch to zoom, and use the simulation-speed slider to fast-forward the multi-year fill process.