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carbon-removal/biochar v1.0.1

spruce wood chips, drying

This dataset supplies 1 kilogram of preprocessed spruce wood chips before entering the pyrolysis process. The wood goes through drying and chipping. The energy requirements for drying the …

Reference product
spruce wood chips, dried
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
Undisclosed license type; I take responsibility for sharing it
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.0365483 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, by ocean liming

This dataset supplies the transportation and spreading of hydrated lime to and in the ocean. The overland distance of hydrated lime from the plant to the port is …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 4
Climate change 0.54419 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity v1.0.0

hydrated lime production, from quicklime with carbon capture and storage

The dataset supplies 1 kilogram of hydrated lime, produced with quicklime that has been produce with carbon capture and storage. This dataset accounts for the energy and water …

Reference product
hydrated lime
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 4
Climate change 0.393668 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity v1.0.0

quicklime production, with carbon capture and storage

This dataset supplies the production of 1 kilogram of quicklime through calcination combined with carbon capture. An oxyfuel combustion system is considered (95% pure CO2). Oxygen is assumed …

Reference product
CaO
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 4
Climate change 0.51759 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity v1.0.0

limestone crushing and washing

This dataset supplies 1 kilogram of crushed and washed limestone. The crushing facility is assumed to be similar to the one at a cement facility. The limestone goes …

Reference product
crushed and washed limestone
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 4
Climate change 0.0108697 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/ocean-alkalinity v1.0.0

limestone mining

This dataset represents the supply of 1 kg of limestone through the process of limestone mining. The authors assume that limestone is extracted and processed specifically for OL. …

Reference product
unprocessed limestone
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 4
Climate change 0.00306952 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/enhanced-weathering v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, by olivine spreading on coastline

This dataset represents the spreading of 1 kilogram of crushed olivine to the coastal area. The crushed olivine is loaded in trucks and transported for an average of …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 5
Climate change 0.0524651 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, with a sorbent-based direct air capture system, 100ktCO2, with hydrogen heat, and grid electricity

For the sorbent system, the LCI data are collected from the work of Deutz and Bardow based on the Climeworks system (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00771-9). The LCI data represent a plant …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.888654 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, with a sorbent-based direct air capture system, 100ktCO2, with hydrogen heat, and grid electricity

For the sorbent system, the LCI data are collected from the work of Deutz and Bardow based on the Climeworks system. The LCI data represent a plant with …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.849848 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, with a solvent-based direct air capture system, 1MtCO2, with hydrogen heat, and grid electricity

Based on a solvent-based DAC facility with annual capture capacity of 1 Mt CO2 and lifetime of 20 years. Qiu, Y., Lamers, P., Daioglou, V. et al. Environmental …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.610094 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, with a solvent-based direct air capture system, 1MtCO2, with hydrogen heat, and grid electricity

Based on a solvent-based DAC facility with annual capture capacity of 1 Mt CO2 and lifetime of 20 years. Qiu, Y., Lamers, P., Daioglou, V. et al. Environmental …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.571289 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, at cement production plant, from non-fossil carbon dioxide, using monoethanolamine

Variant of the cement MEA capture and storage module for CDR accounting of non-fossil CO2 only. The activity is derived from the existing dataset "carbon dioxide, captured, at …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.456981 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, from a biomass fermentation plant

This dataset represents capture of an already high-purity fermentation CO2 stream plus the common downstream CO2 compression, transport and geological storage module. The host ethanol fermentation plant, biomass …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.0388052 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, from a hydrogen production plant using steam methane reforming of biomethane

This dataset represents the pre-combustion CO2 capture module for hydrogen production by steam methane reforming of biomethane, plus the common downstream CO2 compression, transport and geological storage module. …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.1116 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured and stored, at wood burning power plant, pipeline 200km, storage 1000m

This dataset represents only the post-combustion CO2 capture module and the common downstream CO2 compression, transport and geological storage module for a wood-fired power plant; the host power …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.052221 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, at cement production plant, using oxyfuel

Carbon capture with Oxyfuel technology, where fuel combustion happens in Oxygen-CO2-mix instead of air, which creates a cleaner CO2 flue gas stream. Main source: Voldsund (2019) - CEMCAP …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.14338 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, at cement production plant, using direct separation

Carbon capture using Direct Separation. Main source: LEILAC project https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5df29e8fc&appId=PPGMS. 95% capture efficiency of process related emissions. Source: Amelie Müller, Carina Harpprecht, Romain Sacchi, Ben Maes, Mariësse van …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.0863505 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, at cement production plant, using monoethanolamine

Carbon capture using MEA: Main source: Voldsund (2019) - CEMCAP - D4.6 CEMCAP comparative techno-economic analysis. Heat for MEA regeneration now produced with same fuel mix as MEA …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.456981 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured, at cement production plant, for subsequent reuse

Capture of CO2 from a cement plant for subsequent reuse. It is a facility integrated in a synthetic fuel production chain, so a certain amount of the needed …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.359826 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

carbon dioxide compression, transport and storage

The CO2 flow is compressed through a compressor to 11 MPa and then transported through a pipeline to the storage site. The length of the transport pipeline is …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, stored
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 0.0388052 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

polyethyleneimine (PEI) production, for sorbent-based direct air capture system

Life-cycle inventory (LCI) for the production of 1 kg polyethyleneimine (PEI) for the best- and worst-case. Aziridine is produced via the Wenker process19 and PEI via the homopolymerization …

Reference product
polyethyleneimine
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 9.48197 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

amine-based silica production, for sorbent-based direct air capture system

Synthesized by impregnate amines polyethylenimine (PEI) on solid silica gel. The LCI of amine-based silica is collected from literature and based on the composition that 1 kg amine-based …

Reference product
amine-based silica
Geography
RER
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 6.45444 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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carbon-removal/direct-air-capture v1.0.0

treatment of direct air capture system, sorbent-based, 100ktCO2

For the sorbent system, the LCI data are collected from the work of Deutz and Bardow based on the Climeworks system. The LCI data represent a plant with …

Reference product
direct air capture system
Geography
RER
Unit
unit
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 8
Climate change 1.2226e+06 kg CO2-eq / unit
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