Lithium-sulfur batteries

factory construction and operation, for LiS battery

Reference product operating battery factory GLO

Published Version 1.0.0 Latest published

Stable dataset identity factory-construction-and-operation-for-lis-battery

Unit
unit
Reuse license
CC BY 4.0
Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
Not assessed

Published inventory

Overview

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Description

Construction allocation and operation for one modelled factory-year in the lithium–sulfur cell-production chain. The reference adapts cylindrical lithium-ion factory data, including the published heating and cooling correction.

Dataset details

Classification, keywords, bookmarks and download counts.

Classification
Lithium-sulfur batteries (materials/batteries/li-sulfur)
Bookmarks
0
Raw file downloads
0
Generated export downloads
0

Classification path: Materials > Batteries > Lithium-sulfur batteries

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Metadata & sources Methods, scope, reference years, publications, contributors, projects and funding.

Source

Source documentation, background profiles and references.

Scientific journal publication

Mudit Chordia; Anders Nordelöf; Linda Ager-Wick Ellingsen (2021). Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 26, 2024–2039. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01976-0

Background database
ecoinvent / 3.9
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.9

These are the stored source profiles for this version. Foreground methodology is recorded in Scientific metadata.

Technology characterization Scale, utilization, production, lifetime, technology readiness and representativeness.
Commercial maturity stage
Not provided
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
2
Annual production volume unit
GWh/year
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
25 years
TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level Not assessed
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Requested

Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.

Inventory & impacts 6 exchanges · exchange table, supply-chain graph and environmental screening.

Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per unit, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 1.1831e+07 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Screening result

This screening result uses Brightpath mappings from the source background to UVEK 2025; mapped suppliers are not claims of scientific equivalence.

Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 24602.4 mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change 1.1831e+07 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity 3.9340e+07 CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication 5085.11 kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication 5701.79 kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication 59730.4 mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer 0.00832577 CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer 0.174979 CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation 1.8139e+07 kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use 6.0766e+07 dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion 0.528594 kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter 0.251776 disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation 22025.9 kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils 3.1219e+08 MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals 88.3231 kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use 2.1292e+07 m3 world Eq deprived / unit
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-11-03 09:05 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow 1 row Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
factory construction and operation, for LiS battery
GLO
operating battery factory
1
unit - Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs 5 rows Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.
Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market for precious metal refinery
GLO
precious metal refinery
0.07
unit -
67432.1 kg CO2-Eq / unit 0.6% of total
BAFU:2025
market for electronic component factory
GLO
electronic component factory
7.01e-03
unit -
1.7567e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit 14.8% of total
BAFU:2025
market group for electricity, medium voltage
Europe without Switzerland
electricity, medium voltage
2.41e+07
kilowatt hour
2.1589e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit 18.2% of total
BAFU:2025
market for heat, district or industrial, natural gas
RoW
heat, district or industrial, natural gas
4.83e+07
megajoule
4.3377e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit 36.7% of total
BAFU:2025
market for cooling energy
GLO
cooling energy
5.97e+07
megajoule
3.5101e+06 kg CO2-Eq / unit 29.7% of total
BAFU:2025
Parameters 0 source definitions · values, formulas and uncertainty.

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