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2. Parametrized regionalization of paper recycling life-cycle assessment
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Provost-Savard, Arianne, Legros, Robert, and Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume
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- 2023
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3. Investigating the role of surface engineering in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions of energy technologies: An outlook towards 2100
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Kaddoura, Mohamad, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Amor, Ben, Moreau, Christian, and Margni, Manuele
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- 2022
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4. Substitution modeling can coherently be used in attributional life cycle assessments.
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Provost‐Savard, Arianne and Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume
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PRODUCT life cycle assessment , *COMMON misconceptions , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
Most life cycle assessment (LCA) studies use the attributional methodology. This approach attributes a share of global environmental impacts to one or multiple functions provided by a normatively circumscribed system. Multifunctional systems that are not technologically subdivisible between co‐functions are frequently encountered in LCA studies. It then becomes necessary to resort to co‐production modeling techniques, like the substitution approach. The use of substitution modeling in attributional LCA (ALCA) is, however, discouraged amongst practitioners, due to the alleged violation of central requirements of the attributional methodology. The objective of this research is to shed light on common misconceptions about the compatibility of substitution with ALCA. The first misconception is that the use of substitution in ALCA violates the conservation of total environmental impacts. We find that this idea arises from a confusion regarding the attribution of impacts to the secondary product(s). The second misconception stipulates that substitution is not coherent with the state‐descriptive characteristic of ALCA. We conclude that we can describe a given system as resulting from an inferred (substitution) change, rather than as disrupted by this change. Finally, we discuss the choice of the substituted technology, and argue there is a logic to marginal substitution in ALCA. We therefore recommend accepting substitution modeling in ALCA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts.
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Duval, Lisa, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Saunier, François, Maréchal, François, and Margni, Manuele
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PRODUCT life cycle assessment , *SYNTHETIC sporting surfaces , *NUCLEAR energy , *FOSSIL fuels , *CIVIL engineering , *LOCAL transit access - Abstract
This study contrasts two different approaches to inform European‐scale decision‐making to mitigate the environmental impacts of the end‐of‐life tires (ELT) management system. The first analysis is a traditional life cycle assessment (LCA) that compares the environmental performances of the 12 main available European end‐of‐life (EOL) technologies in ELT processing while restricting the boundaries to the EOL stage. The second analysis has a broader scope, addressing the optimization of the ELT distribution within the 12 considered pathways to minimize the environmental impacts of the total tire use in Europe under present capacity and constraints. The results of the traditional LCA show that, except for landfill, all the tested EOL routes present environmental benefits. Material recovery pathways bring the most environmental credits, whereas civil engineering pathways are the least promising. The LCA results that emerged from the optimization of ELT management technologies yield two optimal technological mixes that maximize the quantity of ELT recycled in molded objects production: such results represent a hypothetical case with no constraints. When considering constraints, that is, limitations on maximum quantities of ELT that can undergo retreading, pyrolysis, or recycling in synthetic turfs, in molded objects and in production, the number of optimal technology mixes increases to five. The type of technologies favored depends on the minimized impact categories (climate change, fossil and nuclear energy use, human health, and ecosystem quality). A comparison between constrained and unconstrained scenarios shows that achieving the best environmental performances is conditional to the accessibility of the EOL technologies as well as their individual environmental impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Accounting matters: Revisiting claims of decoupling and genuine green growth in Nordic countries
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Tilsted, Joachim Peter, Bjørn, Anders, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, and Lund, Jens Friis
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- 2021
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7. What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?
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Pedneault, Julien, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Krey, Volker, and Margni, Manuele
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- 2021
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8. Assessing scaling effects of circular economy strategies: A case study on plastic bottle closed-loop recycling in the USA PET market
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Lonca, Geoffrey, Lesage, Pascal, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Bernard, Sophie, and Margni, Manuele
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- 2020
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9. How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?
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Pedneault, Julien, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, and Margni, Manuele
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GREENHOUSE gases , *ALUMINUM recycling , *ALUMINUM , *CIRCULAR economy , *PRODUCT life cycle assessment - Abstract
Aluminum recycling follows a downcycling dynamic where wrought alloys are transformed into cast alloys, accumulating tramp elements at every cycle. With the saturation of stocks of aluminum and the reduction of the demand for cast alloy due to electrification of transport, improvement in the recycling system must be made to avoid a surplus of unused recycled aluminum, reduce the overall environmental impacts of the industry, and move toward a circular economy. We aim to evaluate the potential environmental benefits of improving sorting efforts by combining operations research, prospective material flow analysis, and life cycle assessment. An optimization defines the optimal sorting to minimize climate change impacts according to different sorting efforts, dismantling conditions, and collection rates. Results show how the improvement of sorting can reduce by around 30% the greenhouse gas emissions of the industry, notably by reducing unused scrap generation and increasing the recycled content of the flows that supply the demand of aluminum. The best performance is achievable with four different sorting pathways. Further improvements occur with a better dismantling and an increase of collection rates, but it requires more sorting pathways. Results point to different closed‐loop recycling initiatives that should be promoted on priority in specific sectors, like the building and construction sector and the aluminum cans industry. To implement a better material circularity, the mobilization of different stakeholders is needed. From a wider perspective, the article shows how operations research can be used to project a circular future in a specific industry. This article met the requirements for a Gold–Gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Corrigendum to “What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?” [Global Environ. Change 69 (2021) 102316]
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Pedneault, Julien, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Krey, Volker, and Margni, Manuele
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- 2021
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11. Sector‐specific scenarios for future stocks and flows of aluminum: An analysis based on shared socioeconomic pathways.
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Pedneault, Julien, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Pauliuk, Stefan, and Margni, Manuele
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ALUMINUM analysis , *CIRCULAR economy , *MATERIALS analysis , *ALUMINUM alloying , *ALUMINUM industry , *ALUMINUM alloys , *GOLD - Abstract
Aluminum is an energy‐intensive material that is typically used as an alloy. The environmental impacts caused by its production can potentially be spread out over multiple uses through repeated recycling loops. However, inter‐alloy contamination can limit the circularity of aluminum, which highlights the importance of analyzing prospective stock dynamics of aluminum at an alloy and alloying element level to inform a more sustainable management of this resource. A dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) of aluminum alloys was developed in line with the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP) framework to generate consistent scenarios of the evolution of aluminum stocks and flows from 2015 to 2100 covering 11 economic sectors in 5 world regions. A sector‐specific and bottom‐up modeling approach was developed. Results show no saturation of global stock per capita before 2100, reaching a range between 200 and 400 kg per capita according to different socioeconomic scenarios. For the business‐as‐usual scenario, the global annual inflow rises to 100 Mt in 2050 and peaks at 130 Mt in 2090, showing a saturation in total stock. Electricity‐sector demand has the highest relative growth over the century, while building and construction demand saturates and decreases from 2090. No major mismatch between inflows and outflows of aluminum alloy is observed. This means that with appropriate dismantling and sorting, changes in alloy demand would not limit the implementation of a closed‐loop aluminum industry. This study demonstrates the advantages of combining detailed MFAs and SSPs, both for greater consistency in circular economy modeling and for furthering scenario development efforts. This article met the requirements for a gold‐gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. ECOPT2: An adaptable life cycle assessment model for the environmentally constrained optimization of prospective technology transitions.
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Hung, Christine Roxanne, Kishimoto, Paul, Krey, Volker, Strømman, Anders Hammer, and Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume
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PRODUCT life cycle assessment ,CONSTRAINED optimization ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,SUPPLY chain disruptions ,INDUSTRIAL capacity ,MATHEMATICAL programming - Abstract
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method to evaluate the environmental impacts of technologies from cradle to grave. However, LCAs are commonly defined in terms of the consumption of a single unit of a product and thus ignore scaling issues in large‐scale deployment of technologies. Such product‐level LCAs often do not consider capital manufacturing capacity and supply chain bottlenecks that may hinder the rapid, widespread uptake of emerging technologies entering the market; emerging technologies often require the expansion of existing supply chains or the development of entirely new supply chains, such as the manufacturing of novel materials. As a result, such LCA studies are limited in their ability to realistically assess impacts at the macro‐scale and thus to guide large‐scale decisions. In this work, we present ECOPT2, a generalized adaptable model that combines these constraints to the LCA approach using a mathematical programming approach and dynamic stock modeling. ECOPT2 combines LCA factors with transition scenarios from energy systems models to determine the environmentally optimal deployment of new technologies while accounting for material circularity constraints and barriers to uptake. We also introduce the structure of the software tool and demonstrate its features using a stylized vehicle electrification scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. Data innovation in industrial ecology.
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Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Frayret, Jean‐Marc, Ramaswami, Anu, Li, Yang, and Heeren, Niko
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INDUSTRIAL ecology , *URBAN land use , *URBAN health - Abstract
Keywords: agent-based modeling; big data; data analytics; geographic information systems (GIS); industrial ecology; machine learning (ML) EN agent-based modeling big data data analytics geographic information systems (GIS) industrial ecology machine learning (ML) 6 11 6 02/16/22 20220201 NES 220201 IE research is increasingly taking advantage of new strategies to acquire and curate data, enabling our field to quantitatively tackle research questions that could only be approached qualitatively or conceptually until recently....The different articles of this special issue effectively document (1) practical applications of data innovations in real-world IE practice; (2) transformations and new opportunities for IE research; and (3) the development and consolidation of IE datasets. Innovations in data-enabled IE modeling Not only do massive datasets provide high-resolution data on systems, but they enable novel modeling techniques. Big data, data analytics, agent-based modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), industrial ecology, machine learning (ML) DISCUSSION The different articles of this special issue effectively document (1) practical applications of data innovations in real-world IE practice; (2) transformations and new opportunities for IE research; and (3) the development and consolidation of IE datasets. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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14. Correcting remaining truncations in hybrid life cycle assessment database compilation.
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Agez, Maxime, Muller, Elliot, Patouillard, Laure, Södersten, Carl‐Johan H., Arvesen, Anders, Margni, Manuele, Samson, Réjean, and Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume
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PRODUCT life cycle assessment ,CAPITAL requirements ,DATABASES ,POLLUTANTS ,DATABASE design - Abstract
Hybrid life cycle assessment (HLCA) strives to combine process‐based life cycle assessment (PLCA) and environmentally extended input–output (EEIO) analysis to bridge gaps of both methodologies. The recent development of HLCA databases constitutes a major step forward in achieving complete system coverage. Nevertheless, current applications of HLCA still suffer from issues related to incompleteness of the inventory and data gaps: (1) hybridization without endogenizing the capital inputs of the EEIO database leads to underestimations, (2) the unreliability of price data hinders the application of streamlined HLCA for processes in some sectors, and (3) the sparse coverage of pollutants in multiregional EEIO databases limits the application of HLCA to a handful of impact categories. This paper aims at offering a methodology for tackling these issues in a streamlined manner and visualizing their effects on impact scores across an entire PLCA database and multiple impact categories. Data reconciliation algorithms are demonstrated on the PLCA database ecoinvent3.5 and the multiregional EEIO database EXIOBASE3. Instead of performing hybridization solely with annual product requirements, this hybridization approach incorporates endogenized capital requirements, demonstrates a novel hybridization methodology to bypass issues of price unavailability, estimates new pollutants to EXIOBASE3 environmental extensions, and thus yields improved inventories characterized in terms of 13 impact categories from the IMPACT World+ methodology. The effect of hybridization on the impact score of each process of ecoinvent3.5 varied from a few percentages to three‐fold increases, depending on the impact category and the process studied, displaying in which cases hybridization should be prioritized. This article met the requirements for a Gold—Gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Nullius in Verba
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Hertwich, Edgar, Heeren, Niko, Kuczenski, Brandon, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Myers, Rupert J., Pauliuk, Stefan, Stadler, Konstantin, and Lifset, Reid
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academic publishing, data accessibility, data transparency, industrial ecology, open science, publication requirements - Abstract
With the growth of the field of industrial ecology (IE), research and results have increased significantly leading to a desire for better utilization of the accumulated data in more sophisticated analyses. This implies the need for greater transparency, accessibility, and reusability of IE data, paralleling the considerable momentum throughout the sciences. The Data Transparency Task Force (DTTF) was convened by the governing council of the International Society for Industrial Ecology in late 2016 to propose best-practice guidelines and incentives for sharing data. In this article, the members of the DTTF present an overview of developments toward transparent and accessible data within the IE community and more broadly. We argue that increased transparency, accessibility, and reusability of IE data will enhance IE research by enabling more detailed and reproducible research, and also facilitate meta-analyses. These benefits will make the results of IE work more timely. They will enable independent verification of results, thus increasing their credibility and quality. They will also make the uptake of IE research results easier within IE and in other fields as well as by decision makers and sustainability practitioners, thus increasing the overall relevance and impact of the field. Here, we present two initial actions intended to advance these goals: (1) a minimum publication requirement for IE research to be adopted by the Journal of Industrial Ecology; and (2) a system of optional data openness badges rewarding journal articles that contain transparent and accessible data. These actions will help the IE community to move toward data transparency and accessibility. We close with a discussion of potential future initiatives that could build on the minimum requirements and the data openness badge system.
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16. Nullius in Verba: Advancing Data Transparency in Industrial Ecology
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Hertwich, Edgar, Heeren, Niko, Kuczenski, Brandon, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Myers, Rupert J., Pauliuk, Stefan, Stadler, Konstantin, and Lifset, Reid
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data transparency ,data accessibility ,academic publishing ,open science ,industrial ecology ,publication requirements - Abstract
Journal of Industrial Ecology, 22 (1), ISSN:1088-1980, ISSN:1530-9290
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- 2018
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17. Coupling Input‐Output Tables with Macro‐Life Cycle Assessment to Assess Worldwide Impacts of Biofuels Transport Policies
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Somé, A., Dandres, T., Gaudreault, C., Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, and Samson, Rejean
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Many countries see biofuels as a replacement to fossil fuels to mitigate climate change. Nevertheless, some concerns remain about the overall benefits of biofuels policies. More comprehensive tools seem required to evaluate indirect effects of biofuel policies. This article proposes a method to evaluate large‐scale biofuel policies that is based on life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental extensions of input‐output (I‐O) tables, and a general equilibrium model. The method enables the assessment of indirect environmental effects of biofuels policies, including land‐use changes (LUCs), in the context of economic and demographic growth. The method is illustrated with a case study involving two scenarios. The first one describes the evolution of the world economy from 2006 to 2020 under business as usual (BAU) conditions (including demographic and dietary preferences changes), and the second integrates biofuel policies in the United States and the European Union (EU). Results show that the biofuel scenario, originally designed to mitigate climate change, results in more greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the BAU scenario. This is mainly due to emissions associated with global LUCs. The case study shows that the method enables a broader consideration for environmental effects of biofuel policies than usual LCA: Global economic variations calculated by a general equilibrium economic model and LUC emissions can be evaluated. More work is needed, however, to include new biofuel production technologies and reduce the uncertainty of the method. This is the peer reviewed version of an article, which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12640]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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- 2018
18. Hybridization of complete PLCA and MRIO databases for a comprehensive product system coverage.
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Agez, Maxime, Wood, Richard, Margni, Manuele, Strømman, Anders H., Samson, Réjean, and Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume
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SOFTWARE frameworks ,SPECIES hybridization ,DATABASES ,GLOBAL warming ,VALUE chains - Abstract
Process‐based Life Cycle Assessments (PLCA) rely on detailed descriptions of extensive value chains and their associated exchanges with the environment, but major data gaps limit the completeness of these system descriptions and lead to truncations in inventories and underestimations of impacts. Hybrid Life Cycle Assessments (HLCA) aim to combine the strength of PLCA and Environmentally Extended Input Output (EEIO) analysis to obtain more specific and complete system descriptions. Currently, however, most HLCAs only remediate truncation of processes that are specific to each case study (foreground processes), and these processes are then linked to (truncated) generic background processes from a non‐hybridized PLCA database. A hybrid PLCA‐EEIO database is therefore required to completely solve the truncation problems of PLCA and thus obtain a comprehensive product system coverage. This paper describes the construction of such a database using pyLCAIO, a novel framework and open‐source software enabling the streamlined hybridization of entire PLCA and EEIO databases. We applied this framework to the PLCA database Ecoinvent3.5 and the multiregional EEIO database EXIOBASE 3. Thanks to the correction for truncation in this new hybrid database, the median and average life cycle global warming potential (GWP) of its processes increased by 7% and 14%, respectively. These corrections only reflect the truncations that could be readily identified and estimated in a semi‐automated manner; and we anticipate that further database integration should lead to higher levels of correction in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. Lifting the veil on the correction of double counting incidents in hybrid life cycle assessment.
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Agez, Maxime, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Margni, Manuele, Strømman, Anders H., and Samson, Réjean
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INPUT-output analysis , *DEFINITIONS , *INDUSTRIAL ecology - Abstract
Life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmentally extended input–output analyses (EEIOA) are two techniques commonly used to assess environmental impacts of an activity/product. Their strengths and weaknesses are complementary, and they are thus regularly combined to obtain hybrid LCAs. A number of approaches in hybrid LCA exist, which leads to different results. One of the differences is the method used to ensure that mixed LCA and EEIOA data do not overlap, which is referred to as correction for double counting. This aspect of hybrid LCA is often ignored in reports of hybrid assessments and no comprehensive study has been carried out on it. This article strives to list, compare, and analyze the different existing methods for the correction of double counting. We first harmonize the definitions of the existing correction methods and express them in a common notation, before introducing a streamlined variant. We then compare their respective assumptions and limitations. We discuss the loss of specific information regarding the studied activity/product and the loss of coherent financial representation caused by some of the correction methods. This analysis clarifies which techniques are most applicable to different tasks, from hybridizing individual LCA processes to integrating complete databases. We finally conclude by giving recommendations for future hybrid analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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20. LiSET: A Framework for Early‐Stage Life Cycle Screening of Emerging Technologies.
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Hung, Christine Roxanne, Ellingsen, Linda Ager‐Wick, and Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,TRAFFIC signs & signals ,TECHNOLOGY assessment ,PERFORMANCE technology ,GREEN technology ,APPROPRIATE technology - Abstract
Summary: While life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool often used to evaluate the environmental impacts of products and technologies, the amount of data required to perform such studies make the evaluation of emerging technologies using the conventional LCA approach challenging. The development paradox is such that the inputs from a comprehensive environmental assessment has the greatest effect early in the development phase, and yet the data required to perform such an assessment are generally lacking until it is too late. Previous attempts to formalize strategies for performing streamlined or screening LCAs were made in the late 1990s and early 2000s, mostly to rapidly compare the environmental performance of product design candidates. These strategies lack the transparency and consistency required for the environmental screening of large numbers of early‐development candidates, for which data are even sparser. We propose the Lifecycle Screening of Emerging Technologies method (LiSET). LiSET is an adaptable screening‐to‐LCA method that uses the available data to systematically and transparently evaluate the environmental performance of technologies at low readiness levels. Iterations follow technological development and allow a progression to a full LCA if desired. In early iterations, LiSET presents results in a matrix structure combined with a "traffic light" color grading system. This format inherently communicates the high uncertainty of analysis at this stage and presents numerous environmental aspects assessed. LiSET takes advantage of a decomposition analysis and data not traditionally used in LCAs to gain insight to the life cycle impacts and ensure that the most environmentally sustainable technologies are adopted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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21. Balance issues in input–output analysis: A comment on physical inhomogeneity, aggregation bias, and coproduction
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Pauliuk, Stefan, Wood, Richard, Bouman, Evert A., and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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- 2016
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22. When do allocations and constructs respect material, energy, financial, and production balances in LCA and EEIO?
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, Hertwich, Edgar G., and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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Conservation of mass and energy are essential to physical accounting, just as price and market balances are essential to economic accounting. These principles guide data collection and inventory compilation in industrial ecology. The resulting balanced surveys, however, can rarely be used directly for life cycle assessment (LCA) or environmentally extended input‐output (EEIO) analysis; some modeling is necessary to recast coproductions by multifunctional activities as monofunctional unit processes (a.k.a. Leontief production functions or technical “recipes”). This modeling is done with allocations in LCA and constructs in input‐output. In this article, we ask how these models respect or perturb the balances of the original inventory. Which allocations or constructs, applied to what type of data set, have the potential to simultaneously respect its multiple physical, financial, and market balances? Our analysis builds upon the recent harmonization of allocations and constructs and the ongoing development of multilayered supply and use inventory tables. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for balanced models, investigate the role of data aggregation, and clarify these models' relation to system expansion. We find that none of the modeling families in LCA and EEIO are balanced in general, but special data characteristics can allow for the respect of multiple balances. An analysis of these special cases allows for clear guidance for data compilation and methods integration. This is the peer reviewed version of an article, which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12273]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
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- 2016
23. Convergence of Industrial Ecology Methods for the Analysis of our Socio-economic Metabolism
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume
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24. Life Cycle Assessment of a Lithium-Ion Battery Vehicle Pack
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Ellingsen, Linda Ager-Wick, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Singh, Bhawna, Srivastava, Akhilesh Kumar, Valøen, Lars Ole, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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Electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions, but the production of their batteries leads to environmental burdens. In order to avoid problem-shifting, a life cycle perspective should be applied in the environmental assessment of traction batteries. The goal of this study is to provide a transparent inventory for a lithium-ion nickel-cobalt-manganese traction battery based on primary data and to report its cradle-to-gate impacts. The study was carried out as a process-based attributional life cycle assessment. The environmental impacts were analyzed using midpoint indicators. The global warming potential of the 26.6 kilowatt-hour (kWh), 253 kg battery pack was found to be 4.6 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalents. Regardless of impact category, the production impacts of the battery are caused mainly by the production chains of battery cell manufacture, the positive electrode paste, and the negative current collector. The robustness of the study was tested through sensitivity analysis, and results were compared with preceding studies. Sensitivity analysis indicates that the most effective approach to reduce climate change emissions would be to produce the battery cells with electricity from a cleaner energy mix. On a per-kWh basis, cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of the battery are within the range of those reported in preceding studies. Contribution and structural path analysis allowed for identification of the most impact-intensive processes and value chains. This article provides an inventory based mainly on primary data, which can easily be adapted to subsequent EV studies, and offers improved understanding of environmental burdens pertaining to lithium ion traction batteries.
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25. Choice of Allocations and Constructs for Attributional or Consequential Life Cycle Assessment and Input‐Output Analysis.
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Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Dandres, Thomas, Pauliuk, Stefan, Wood, Richard, Hertwich, Edgar, Samson, Réjean, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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PRODUCT life cycle , *MATHEMATICAL models , *DATABASES , *NUMERICAL analysis , *MATHEMATICAL analysis - Abstract
Summary: The divide between attributional and consequential research perspectives partly overlaps with the long‐standing methodological discussions in the life cycle assessment (LCA) and input‐output analysis (IO) research communities on the choice of techniques and models for dealing with situations of coproduction. The recent harmonization of LCA allocations and IO constructs revealed a more diverse set of coproduction models than had previously been understood. This increased flexibility and transparency in inventory modeling warrants a re‐evaluation of the treatment of coproduction in analyses with attributional and consequential perspectives. In the present article, the main types of coproductions situations and of coproduction models are reviewed, along with key desirable characteristics of attributional and consequential studies. A concordance analysis leads to clear recommendations, which call for important refinements to current guidelines for both LCA/IO practitioners and database developers. We notably challenge the simple association between, on the one hand, attributional LCA and partition allocation, and on the one hand, consequential LCA and substitution modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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26. Coupling Input‐Output Tables with Macro‐Life Cycle Assessment to Assess Worldwide Impacts of Biofuels Transport Policies.
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Somé, Audrey, Dandres, Thomas, Gaudreault, Caroline, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, and Samson, Réjean
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PRODUCT life cycle ,BIOMASS energy ,TRANSPORTATION policy ,FOSSIL fuels ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
Summary: Many countries see biofuels as a replacement to fossil fuels to mitigate climate change. Nevertheless, some concerns remain about the overall benefits of biofuels policies. More comprehensive tools seem required to evaluate indirect effects of biofuel policies. This article proposes a method to evaluate large‐scale biofuel policies that is based on life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental extensions of input‐output (I‐O) tables, and a general equilibrium model. The method enables the assessment of indirect environmental effects of biofuels policies, including land‐use changes (LUCs), in the context of economic and demographic growth. The method is illustrated with a case study involving two scenarios. The first one describes the evolution of the world economy from 2006 to 2020 under business as usual (BAU) conditions (including demographic and dietary preferences changes), and the second integrates biofuel policies in the United States and the European Union (EU). Results show that the biofuel scenario, originally designed to mitigate climate change, results in more greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the BAU scenario. This is mainly due to emissions associated with global LUCs. The case study shows that the method enables a broader consideration for environmental effects of biofuel policies than usual LCA: Global economic variations calculated by a general equilibrium economic model and LUC emissions can be evaluated. More work is needed, however, to include new biofuel production technologies and reduce the uncertainty of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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27. Toward a Practical Ontology for Socioeconomic Metabolism.
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Pauliuk, Stefan, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Müller, Daniel B., and Hertwich, Edgar G.
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ONTOLOGY , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *METABOLISM , *SEMANTICS , *COMPARATIVE linguistics - Abstract
The complexity of data and methods in industrial ecology (IE) keeps growing, and the demand for comprehensive and interdisciplinary assessments increases. To keep up with this development, the field needs a data infrastructure that allows researchers to annotate, store, retrieve, combine, and exchange data at low cost, without loss of information, and across disciplines and model frameworks. A consensus-building debate about how to describe the common object of study, socioeconomic metabolism (SEM), is necessary for the development of practical data structures and databases. We review the definitions of basic concepts to describe SEM in IE and related fields such as integrated assessment modeling. We find that many definitions are not compatible, are implicit, and are sometimes lacking. To resolve the conflicts and inconsistencies within the current definitions, we propose a hierarchical system of terms and definitions, a practical ontology, for describing objects, their properties, and events in SEM. We propose a typology of object properties and use sets to group objects into a hierarchical, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive (H-MECE) classification. This grouping leads to a general definition of stocks. We show that a MECE representation of events necessarily requires two complementary concepts: processes and flows, for which we propose general definitions based on sets. Using these definitions, we show that the system structure of any interdisciplinary model of SEM can be formulated as a directed graph. We propose guidelines for semantic data annotation and database design, which can help to turn the vision of a powerful data infrastructure for SEM research into reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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28. On the financial balance of input–output constructs: revisiting an axiomatic evaluation.
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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INPUT-output analysis ,LIFE cycles (Biology) ,WASTE products ,AGRICULTURE - Abstract
Financial balance is fundamental to input–output (IO) analysis, and consequently the respect of this balance is one of the dominant criteria in evaluating IO constructs. Kop Jansen, and ten Raa [(1990) The Choice of Model in the Construction of Input–Output Coefficients Matrices.International Economic Review31, 213] proved that the byproduct-technology construct (BTC) and the industry-technology construct (ITC) do not generally conserve financial balance. In contrast, Majeau-Bettez et al. [(2016) When do Allocations and Constructs Respect Material, Energy, Financial, and Production Balances in LCA and EEIO?Journal of Industrial Ecology20, 67–84] demonstrated that the BTC necessarily respects financial balance and that the ITC is always financially balanced when applied to data recorded in monetary units. The present article resolves this paradox. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. When Do Allocations and Constructs Respect Material, Energy, Financial, and Production Balances in LCA and EEIO?
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Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, Hertwich, Edgar G., and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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ENERGY conservation research , *ELECTRIC power distribution , *ELECTRIC rates , *INDUSTRIAL ecology , *PRODUCT life cycle assessment - Abstract
Conservation of mass and energy are essential to physical accounting, just as price and market balances are essential to economic accounting. These principles guide data collection and inventory compilation in industrial ecology. The resulting balanced surveys, however, can rarely be used directly for life cycle assessment (LCA) or environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) analysis; some modeling is necessary to recast coproductions by multifunctional activities as monofunctional unit processes (a.k.a. Leontief production functions or technical 'recipes'). This modeling is done with allocations in LCA and constructs in input-output. In this article, we ask how these models respect or perturb the balances of the original inventory. Which allocations or constructs, applied to what type of data set, have the potential to simultaneously respect its multiple physical, financial, and market balances? Our analysis builds upon the recent harmonization of allocations and constructs and the ongoing development of multilayered supply and use inventory tables. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for balanced models, investigate the role of data aggregation, and clarify these models' relation to system expansion. We find that none of the modeling families in LCA and EEIO are balanced in general, but special data characteristics can allow for the respect of multiple balances. An analysis of these special cases allows for clear guidance for data compilation and methods integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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30. Lifting Industrial Ecology Modeling to a New Level of Quality and Transparency: A Call for More Transparent Publications and a Collaborative Open Source Software Framework.
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Pauliuk, Stefan, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Mutel, Christopher L., Steubing, Bernhard, and Stadler, Konstantin
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INDUSTRIAL ecology , *COMPUTER programming , *COMPUTER software development , *SOURCE code , *PYTHON programming language , *PRODUCT life cycle assessment - Abstract
Industrial ecology (IE) is a maturing scientific discipline. The field is becoming more data and computation intensive, which requires IE researchers to develop scientific software to tackle novel research questions. We review the current state of software programming and use in our field and find challenges regarding transparency, reproducibility, reusability, and ease of collaboration. Our response to that problem is fourfold: First, we propose how existing general principles for the development of good scientific software could be implemented in IE and related fields. Second, we argue that collaborating on open source software could make IE research more productive and increase its quality, and we present guidelines for the development and distribution of such software. Third, we call for stricter requirements regarding general access to the source code used to produce research results and scientific claims published in the IE literature. Fourth, we describe a set of open source modules for standard IE modeling tasks that represent our first attempt at turning our recommendations into practice. We introduce a Python toolbox for IE that includes the life cycle assessment (LCA) framework Brightway2, the ecospold2matrix module that parses unallocated data in ecospold format, the pySUT and pymrio modules for building and analyzing multiregion input-output models and supply and use tables, and the dynamic_stock_model class for dynamic stock modeling. Widespread use of open access software can, at the same time, increase quality, transparency, and reproducibility of IE research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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31. A General System Structure and Accounting Framework for Socioeconomic Metabolism.
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Pauliuk, Stefan, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, and Müller, Daniel B.
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ENVIRONMENTAL auditing , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *SOCIAL accounting , *BIPARTITE graphs , *INDUSTRIAL ecology - Abstract
A wide spectrum of accounting frameworks and models is available to describe socioeconomic metabolism (SEM). Despite the common system of study, a large variety of terms and representations of that system are used by different models. This makes it difficult for practitioners to compare and choose a model or model combination that is fit for purpose. To facilitate model comparison, we analyze the system structure of material flow analysis (MFA); life cycle assessment (LCA); supply and use tables (SUTs); Leontief, Ghosh, and waste input-output analysis; integrated assessment models; and computable general equilibrium models. We show that the typical system structure of MFA and LCA is a directed graph. For the other models and some MFA and LCA studies, the system structure is a bipartite directed graph. We demonstrate that bipartite directed graphs and SUTs are equivalent representations of SEM. We show that the system structures of the models above are special cases of a general system structure, which models SEM as a bipartite graph. The general system structure includes industries, markets, the final use phase, products, waste, production factors, resources, and emissions. From the general system structure, we derive an accounting framework in the form of a generalized SUT. The general system structure facilitates the development of clear and unambiguous terminology across models. It helps to identify rules for the correct accounting of waste flows and stock changes. It facilitates model comparison and can serve as a blueprint for a model-independent database of SEM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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32. Unified Theory of Allocations and Constructs in Life Cycle Assessment and Input-Output Analysis.
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Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Wood, Richard, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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PRODUCT life cycle assessment , *INPUT-output analysis , *INDUSTRIAL ecology , *SUSTAINABLE design , *NEW product development ,ENVIRONMENTAL aspects - Abstract
The treatment of coproducts is one of the most persistent methodological challenges for both input-output (IO) analysis and life cycle assessment (LCA). The two fields have developed distinct modeling traditions to artificially extract independent Leontief production functions (technological 'recipes') for products of multioutput activities; whereas IO operates in terms of system-wide models named constructs, LCA practitioners usually use allocations or system expansion on a process-by-process basis. Recently, there have been renewed efforts to connect these two modeling traditions on the basis of their underlying assumptions. A formal description of a unified framework for the treatment of coproducts is still lacking, however. The present article strives to fill this gap. From a single generalized allocation equation, we derive all practical LCA allocations and IO constructs. This approach extends previous studies by arranging the different models in a formal 'taxonomic tree,' clarifying the relation between the different LCA allocation and IO construct models. This framework also clarifies the relation of certain models to classical system expansion. We then analyze the properties of these models when combined with different types of inventories and make recommendations for best practice in inventory compilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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33. Life Cycle Assessment of a Lithium-Ion Battery Vehicle Pack.
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Ellingsen, Linda Ager‐Wick, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Singh, Bhawna, Srivastava, Akhilesh Kumar, Valøen, Lars Ole, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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ELECTRIC vehicles , *ZERO emissions vehicles , *CARBON dioxide , *ELECTRICITY , *LITHIUM-ion batteries - Abstract
Electric vehicles (EVs) have no tailpipe emissions, but the production of their batteries leads to environmental burdens. In order to avoid problem shifting, a life cycle perspective should be applied in the environmental assessment of traction batteries. The aim of this study was to provide a transparent inventory for a lithium-ion nickel-cobalt-manganese traction battery based on primary data and to report its cradle-to-gate impacts. The study was carried out as a process-based attributional life cycle assessment. The environmental impacts were analyzed using midpoint indicators. The global warming potential of the 26.6 kilowatt-hour (kWh), 253-kilogram battery pack was found to be 4.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents. Regardless of impact category, the production impacts of the battery were caused mainly by the production chains of battery cell manufacture, positive electrode paste, and negative current collector. The robustness of the study was tested through sensitivity analysis, and results were compared with preceding studies. Sensitivity analysis indicated that the most effective approach to reducing climate change emissions would be to produce the battery cells with electricity from a cleaner energy mix. On a per-kWh basis, cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of the battery were within the range of those reported in preceding studies. Contribution and structural path analysis allowed for identification of the most impact-intensive processes and value chains. This article provides an inventory based mainly on primary data, which can easily be adapted to subsequent EV studies, and offers an improved understanding of environmental burdens pertaining to lithium-ion traction batteries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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34. Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Electric Vehicles.
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Hawkins, Troy R., Singh, Bhawna, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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ELECTRIC vehicles ,GREENHOUSE gas mitigation ,PRODUCT life cycle assessment ,AUTOMOTIVE fuel consumption ,GLOBAL warming ,GASOLINE - Abstract
Electric vehicles (EVs) coupled with low-carbon electricity sources offer the potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to tailpipe emissions from personal transportation. In considering these benefits, it is important to address concerns of problem-shifting. In addition, while many studies have focused on the use phase in comparing transportation options, vehicle production is also significant when comparing conventional and EVs. We develop and provide a transparent life cycle inventory of conventional and electric vehicles and apply our inventory to assess conventional and EVs over a range of impact categories. We find that EVs powered by the present European electricity mix offer a 10% to 24% decrease in global warming potential (GWP) relative to conventional diesel or gasoline vehicles assuming lifetimes of 150,000 km. However, EVs exhibit the potential for significant increases in human toxicity, freshwater eco-toxicity, freshwater eutrophication, and metal depletion impacts, largely emanating from the vehicle supply chain. Results are sensitive to assumptions regarding electricity source, use phase energy consumption, vehicle lifetime, and battery replacement schedules. Because production impacts are more significant for EVs than conventional vehicles, assuming a vehicle lifetime of 200,000 km exaggerates the GWP benefits of EVs to 27% to 29% relative to gasoline vehicles or 17% to 20% relative to diesel. An assumption of 100,000 km decreases the benefit of EVs to 9% to 14% with respect to gasoline vehicles and results in impacts indistinguishable from those of a diesel vehicle. Improving the environmental profile of EVs requires engagement around reducing vehicle production supply chain impacts and promoting clean electricity sources in decision making regarding electricity infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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35. Evaluation of Process- and Input--Output-based Life Cycle Inventory Data with Regard to Truncation and Aggregation Issues.
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Strømman, Anders Hammer, and Hertwich, Edgar G.
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ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis , *INPUT-output analysis , *LIFE cycle costing , *ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring , *ECONOMIC sectors , *CONSUMER goods , *DATA analysis ,ENVIRONMENTAL aspects - Abstract
Life cycle assessments (LCA) and environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) analyses both strive to account for direct and indirect environmental impacts of goods and services. Different methods have been developed to hybridize these two techniques and minimize the impact of their respective shortcomings on final assessments. These weaknesses, however, have not been extensively studied in a quantitative manner, especially not for complete LCA and EEIO databases. To this end, we jointly analyzed process-based and input-output-based data sets. We first evaluated their complementarity. Though the LCA data was more detailed overall, some sectors of the economy were more precisely represented in the EEIO database. We then contrasted the representation of the different economic sectors in the LCA database with the economic, environmental, and structural importance of these sectors. The weakness of the correlation results led us to conclude that process-inventory efforts have not been systematically directed at the most important sectors of the economy. The LCA data was also used to evaluate the sensitivity of EEIO data to aggregation uncertainty. This sensitivity proved highly inhomogeneous. We conclude the presence of important research inefficiencies stemming from the lack of hybrid perspective in the compilation of LCA and EEIO data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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36. Life Cycle Environmental Assessment of Lithium-Ion and Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries for Plug-In Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles.
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Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, Hawkins, Troy R., and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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PRODUCT life cycle , *LITHIUM-ion batteries , *NICKEL-metal hydride batteries , *PLUG-in hybrid electric vehicles , *HYBRID electric vehicle research , *COBALT nickel alloys , *GLOBAL warming research - Abstract
This study presents the life cycle assessment (LCA) of three batteries for plug-in hybrid and full performance battery electric vehicles. A transparent life cycle inventory (LCI) was compiled in a component-wise manner for nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel cobalt manganese lithium-ion (NCM), and iron phosphate lithium-ion (LFP) batteries. The battery systems were investigated with a functional unit based on energy storage, and environmental impacts were analyzed using midpoint indicators. On a per-storage basis, the NiMH technology was found to have the highest environmental impact, followed by NCM and then LFP, for all categories considered except ozone depletion potential. We found higher life cycle global warming emissions than have been previously reported. Detailed contribution and structural path analyses allowed for the identification of the different processes and value-chains most directly responsible for these emissions. This article contributes a public and detailed inventory, which can be easily be adapted to any powertrain, along with readily usable environmental performance assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Environmental Screening of Electrode Materials for a Rechargeable Aluminum Battery with an AlCl3/EMIMCl Electrolyte.
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Ellingsen, Linda Ager-Wick, Holland, Alex, Drillet, Jean-Francois, Peters, Willi, Eckert, Martin, Concepcion, Carlos, Ruiz, Oscar, Colin, Jean-François, Knipping, Etienne, Pan, Qiaoyan, Wills, Richard G. A., and Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume
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ALUMINUM batteries ,ELECTROLYTES ,IONIC liquids ,LITHIUM-ion batteries ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
Recently, rechargeable aluminum batteries have received much attention due to their low cost, easy operation, and high safety. As the research into rechargeable aluminum batteries with a room-temperature ionic liquid electrolyte is relatively new, research efforts have focused on finding suitable electrode materials. An understanding of the environmental aspects of electrode materials is essential to make informed and conscious decisions in aluminum battery development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the relative environmental performance of electrode material candidates for rechargeable aluminum batteries with an AlCl
3 /EMIMCl (1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) room-temperature ionic liquid electrolyte. To this end, we used a lifecycle environmental screening framework to evaluate 12 candidate electrode materials. We found that all of the studied materials are associated with one or more drawbacks and therefore do not represent a “silver bullet” for the aluminum battery. Even so, some materials appeared more promising than others did. We also found that aluminum battery technology is likely to face some of the same environmental challenges as Li-ion technology but also offers an opportunity to avoid others. The insights provided here can aid aluminum battery development in an environmentally sustainable direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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38. Comment on 'The significance of Li-ion batteries in electric vehicle life-cycle energy and emissions and recycling's role in its reduction' in Energy & Environmental Science.
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Ellingsen, Linda Ager‐Wick, Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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LITHIUM-ion batteries , *ELECTRIC vehicles , *WASTE recycling , *ENERGY intensity (Economics) , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *PRODUCT life cycle - Abstract
The authors offer a commentary on the study "The Significance of Li-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicle Life-Cycle Energy and Emissions and Recycling's Role in its Reduction" by J. B. Dunn and colleagues, published in a previous issue. The commentary discusses the article's presentation of industry data, the modelling of energy intensity as a function of facility throughput, and their conclusion on the importance of facility throughput in resolving the energy debate.
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39. Regionalized climate footprints of battery electric vehicles in Europe.
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Hung, Christine Roxanne, Völler, Steve, Agez, Maxime, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, and Strømman, Anders Hammer
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ELECTRIC vehicle batteries , *INTERNAL combustion engines , *CLIMATE change mitigation , *SOFTWARE development tools , *ELECTRIC power consumption - Abstract
The climate mitigation benefits of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) relative to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) are highly dependent on the carbon intensity of the electricity consumed during their production and use-phase. A consistent and dynamic approach to grid-mix regionalization of BEV life-cycle assessments in Europe is therefore necessary to offer accurate guidance to consumers and policy makers. To this end, we present ReDyFEV, a simple open-source software tool that can be used to calculate attributional, regionalized lifecycle climate impacts of BEVs in Europe for user-defined time periods, including near real-time. We determine the national lifecycle carbon footprints across all EU states for four BEV size segments and compare them to those of fossil-fuelled vehicles of similar sizes. Simplified sensitivity analyses investigate the effect of lifetime assumptions, electricity demand in battery production, and of relocating battery production to Europe on the carbon footprints of BEVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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40. Corrigendum: Nanotechnology for environmentally sustainable electromobility.
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Ellingsen LA, Hung CR, Majeau-Bettez G, Singh B, Chen Z, Whittingham MS, and Strømman AH
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- 2017
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41. Nanotechnology for environmentally sustainable electromobility.
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Ellingsen LA, Hung CR, Majeau-Bettez G, Singh B, Chen Z, Whittingham MS, and Strømman AH
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Electric vehicles (EVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) or proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells (PEMFCs) offer important potential climate change mitigation effects when combined with clean energy sources. The development of novel nanomaterials may bring about the next wave of technical improvements for LIBs and PEMFCs. If the next generation of EVs is to lead to not only reduced emissions during use but also environmentally sustainable production chains, the research on nanomaterials for LIBs and PEMFCs should be guided by a life-cycle perspective. In this Analysis, we describe an environmental life-cycle screening framework tailored to assess nanomaterials for electromobility. By applying this framework, we offer an early evaluation of the most promising nanomaterials for LIBs and PEMFCs and their potential contributions to the environmental sustainability of EV life cycles. Potential environmental trade-offs and gaps in nanomaterials research are identified to provide guidance for future nanomaterial developments for electromobility.
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