Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories A joint initiative of the ETH domain and Swiss Federal Offices
Life Cycle Inventories of Chemicals Data v2.0 (2007)
Hans-Jrg Althaus, Roland Hischier, Maggie Osses EMPA, Dbendorf / St. Gallen
Alex Primas, Stefanie Hellweg ETH Zrich
Niels Jungbluth ESU-services, Uster
Mike Chudacoff Chudacoff koscience, Zrich
ecoinvent report No. 8
Dbendorf, Dezember 2007
Project "ecoinvent data v2.0" Commissioners: Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories,
Dbendorf Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU -
FOEN), Bern Swiss Federal Office for Energy (BFE), Bern Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (BLW), Bern ecoinvent Board: Alexander Wokaun (Chair) PSI, Villigen Grard Gaillard, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tnikon
Research Station, ART, Zrich Lorenz Hilty, Empa, St. Gallen Konrad Hungerbhler, ETHZ, Zrich Franois Marchal, EPFL, Lausanne ecoinvent Advisory Council: Norbert Egli, BAFU, Bern Mark Goedkoop, PR Consultants B.V. Patrick Hofstetter, WWF, Zrich Roland Hgger, bu / Geberit AG, Rapperswil Christoph Rentsch, BAFU (until January 2006) Mark Zimmermann, BFE (until July 2007) Institutes of the ecoinvent Centre: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zrich
(ETHZ) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
(EPFL) Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing
and Research (Empa) Agroscope Reckenholz-Tnikon Research Station
(ART) Participating consultants: Basler & Hofmann, Zrich Bau- und Umweltchemie, Zrich Carbotech AG, Basel Chudacoff Oekoscience, Zrich Doka Life Cycle Assessments, Zrich Dr. Werner Environment & Development, Zrich Ecointesys - Life Cycle Systems Sarl. ENERS Energy Concept, Lausanne ESU-services Ltd., Uster Infras AG, Bern Software Support: ifu Hamburg GmbH Project leader: Rolf Frischknecht, ecoinvent Centre, Empa,
Dbendorf Marketing and Sales: Annette Khler, ecoinvent Centre, Empa,
Dbendorf
Citation: Althaus H.-J., Chudacoff M., Hischier R., Jungbluth N., Osses M. and Primas A. (2007) Life Cycle Inventories of Chemicals. ecoinvent report No. 8, v2.0. EMPA Dbendorf, Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, Dbendorf, CH, from www.ecoinvent.org. Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories / 2007
Life Cycle Inventories of Chemicals Subprojects "Chemicals"
Project leaders: Hans-Jrg Althaus, EMPA Stefanie Hellweg, ETHZ - ICB Roland Hischier, EMPA Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Authors: Hans-Jrg Althaus, EMPA Mike Chudacoff, Chudacoff koscience Stefanie Hellweg, ETHZ - ICB Roland Hischier, EMPA Niels Jungbluth, ESU-services Maggie Osses, EMPA Alex Primas, ETHZ - ICB Review: see individual chapters Contact address: EMPA P.O. Box CH-8600 Dbendorf www.ecoinvent.org [email protected] Responsibility: This report has been prepared on behalf of one or
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Althaus H.-J., Chudacoff M., Hischier R., Jungbluth N., Osses M. and Primas A. (2007) Life Cycle Inventories of Chemicals. Final report ecoinvent data v2.0 No. 8. EMPA, Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, Dbendorf, CH, Online-Version under: www.ecoinvent.org.
Final report of the project of a National Life Cycle Inventory Database "Ecoinvent 2000" commissioned by BUWAL/BFE/ASTRA/BLW
Comments on version 2.0 This part corresponds to the original report Althaus et al. 2004 that has been updated with the changes reported in Frischknecht et al. 2006. Direct changes in the unit process data have been made for the following datasets:
Acetic Acide
Acrilic Acide
Carbon Black
Melamine
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
Silicones and Silicone Products
Water
The chapter on Acetic Anhydride has been removed from this report since a new dataset has been es-tablished and documented in Sutter 2007b.
In the other chapters the references to the ecoinvent reports were updated and in some of the chapters the exchanges that changed names from version 1 to 2 (e.g. transports) were updated in figures and ta-bles.
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Althaus H.-J., Chudacoff M., Hischier R., Jungbluth N., Osses M. and Primas A. (2007) Life Cycle Inventories of Chemicals. Final report ecoinvent data v2.0 No. 8. EMPA, Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, Dbendorf, CH, Online-Version under: www.ecoinvent.org.
Final report of the project of a National Life Cycle Inventory Database "Ecoinvent 2000" commissioned by BUWAL/BFE/ASTRA/BLW
Part I
Methodological Remarks Authors: Hans-Jrg Althaus, EMPA Dbendorf Roland Hischier, EMPA St. Gallen Alex Primas, ETHZ Zrich Data: v2.0 (2007)
Table of Content
Table of Content
Comments on version 2.0 ................................................................................................................. i Table of Content .......................................................................................................................... iii
1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
2 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS ................................................ 16 2.1 Facilities, chemical production............................................................................................ 17
2.1.1 Process data......................................................................................................................... 17 2.1.2 Data quality considerations ................................................................................................. 18
2.2 Electronics for control units ................................................................................................ 19 2.2.1 System characterisation....................................................................................................... 19 2.2.2 Dataset electronics for control units ................................................................................ 19 2.2.3 Dataset disposal, electronics for control units ................................................................. 21
2.3 Disposal, facilities, chemical production............................................................................. 23 2.3.1 Process data......................................................................................................................... 23 2.3.2 Data quality considerations ................................................................................................. 23
2.4 Liquid storage tank, chemicals, organics ............................................................................ 24 2.4.1 Process ................................................................................................................................ 24 2.4.2 Land use and used processes............................................................................................... 24 2.4.3 Data quality considerations ................................................................................................. 26
2.5 Storage building, chemicals, solid....................................................................................... 27 2.5.1 Process ................................................................................................................................ 27 2.5.2 Land use and used processes............................................................................................... 27 2.5.3 Data quality considerations ................................................................................................. 28
2.6 Chemical plant, organics ..................................................................................................... 28 2.6.1 Land use and used processes............................................................................................... 29 2.6.2 Data quality considerations ................................................................................................. 31
3 ENERGY FOR PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS.............................................................. 32 3.1 Heat from unknown source ................................................................................................. 32
4 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................... 35
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1. Introduction
ecoinvent report No. 8 - 1 -
1 Introduction This report summarises the chemicals inventoried by the different partners in the Ecoinvent 2000 pro-ject and the updates made to theses datasets for the version 2.0 of the ecoinvent Database. In each chapter of Part II one chemical ore one family of chemicals is reported. Part I gives information valid for all inventories.
Chemicals that are inventoried in the context of certain materials might be included in the respective report. Thus e.g. aluminium oxide (Al2O3) is not incl
