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materials/metals/vanadium v1.0.1

vanadium pentoxide and unalloyed steel production

Source: Chen, S.Y., Fu, X.J., Chu, M.S., Liu, Z.G., Tang, J., 2015. Life cycle assessment of the comprehensive utilisation of vanadium titano-magnetite. J. Clean. Prod. 101, 122–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.03.076. …

Reference product
vanadium pentoxide and unalloyed steel
Geography
CN
Unit
unit
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.40875 kg CO2-eq / unit
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, electrowinning-electric arc furnace, low-alloyed

This dataset models the production of low-alloyed steel in an electric arc furnace (EAF) using iron plates from electrowinning (EW) instead of scrap. The process is adapted from …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.418869 Partial · kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

preheating of hydrogen

This dataset was created by Harpprecht et al. (2025) to model the pre-heating of hydrogen and recirculated process gas prior to entering the shaft furnace in a hydrogen-based …

Reference product
hydrogen, hot
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 7.70451 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

preheating of iron ore pellets

This dataset, created by Harpprecht et al. (2025), models the preheating of iron ore pellets to 800 °C prior to hydrogen-based direct reduction. The preheating is assumed to …

Reference product
iron ore pellets, hot
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.229593 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

pig iron production, hydrogen-based direct reduction iron

This dataset represents pig iron production through a hydrogen-based direct-reduction route, one of the electrified decarbonization pathways analyzed by Harpprecht et al. (2025). That study highlights hydrogen and …

Reference product
pig iron
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.4648 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, hydrogen-based direct reduction iron-electric arc furnace, unalloyed

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the original ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff dataset on “steel production, electric, low-alloyed” (region: Europe without Switzerland and Austria), models the …

Reference product
steel, unalloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.97856 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, hydrogen-based direct reduction iron-electric arc furnace, low-alloyed

This dataset, modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the original ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process for low-alloyed steel production via electric arc furnace (EAF), represents steel production using …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.97448 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, natural gas-based direct reduction iron-electric arc furnace, with carbon capture and storage, unalloyed

This dataset, modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from ecoinvent 3.8 (cutoff), models the production of unalloyed steel via electric arc furnace (EAF) using sponge iron sourced from …

Reference product
steel, unalloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 4.72007 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, natural gas-based direct reduction iron-electric arc furnace, with carbon capture and storage, low-alloyed

This dataset, modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff version, models low-alloyed steel production via electric arc furnace (EAF) using sponge iron from natural …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 4.71599 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

carbon dioxide, captured at steel production plant using direct reduction iron, using vacuum pressure swing adsorption

This dataset, created by Harpprecht et al. (2025), models the process of capturing CO2 from the top gas of a Natural Gas Direct Reduced Iron (NG-DRI) furnace using …

Reference product
carbon dioxide, captured
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change -0.813504 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

pig iron production, with natural gas-based direct reduction

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025), is based on the Midrex natural gas-based direct reduction iron (DRI) production process described by Nduagu et al. (2022), which …

Reference product
iron
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 4.43406 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace, with top gas recycling, with carbon capture and storage, unalloyed

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process *"steel production, converter, unalloyed"* (RER region), models unalloyed steel production using pig iron from …

Reference product
steel, unalloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.649869 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace, with top gas recycling, with carbon capture and storage, low-alloyed

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process *"steel production, converter, low-alloyed"* (RER region), represents low-alloyed steel production using pig iron sourced …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.632084 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace, with top gas recycling, unalloyed

This dataset, modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process *"steel production, converter, unalloyed"* (RER region), represents unalloyed steel production using pig iron sourced …

Reference product
steel, unalloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.0765 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace, with top gas recycling, low-alloyed

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process *"steel production, converter, low-alloyed"* (RER region), models low-alloyed steel production using pig iron sourced …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 1.04707 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

pig iron production, top gas recycling-blast furnace

This dataset, derived from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process *"pig iron production"* (RER region), was modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) to represent iron production via top gas …

Reference product
pig iron
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.983361 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

steel production, blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace, with carbon capture and storage, low-alloyed

This dataset, adapted by Harpprecht et al. (2025) from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process "steel production, converter, low-alloyed" (RER region), represents steel production using iron sourced from a …

Reference product
steel, low-alloyed
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.29261 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

pig iron production, blast furnace, with carbon capture and storage

This dataset, adapted from the ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff process "pig iron production" for the RER region, was modified by Harpprecht et al. (2025) to represent iron production via …

Reference product
pig iron
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0.276148 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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materials/metals/steel v1.0.0

alloys production, for low-alloyed steel

This dataset, developed by Harpprecht et al. (2025), represents the alloying elements required to produce 1 kg of low-alloyed steel using a converter, based on data from the …

Reference product
alloys, for low-alloyed steel
Geography
GLO
Unit
kilogram
License
CC BY 4.0
Published TRL 9
Climate change 0 kg CO2-eq / kilogram
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