CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Hydrogen distribution

hydrogen distribution pipeline installation

Reference product pipeline, for hydrogen distribution RER

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Stable dataset identity hydrogen-distribution-pipeline-installation

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Unit
kilometer
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CC BY 4.0
Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Overview

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Description

LCI of 1 km of distribution pipeline, source from C. Tsiklios, M. Hermesmann, T.E. Müller, Hydrogen transport in large-scale distribution pipeline networks: Thermodynamic and environmental assessment of repurposed and new pipeline configurations, Applied Energy, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120097.

distribution pipeline
Lifetime [years]: 40
Operating pressure range [bar]: 16-100, 80 as reference
Annual operating hours [hours]: 8,000
Hydrogen circulated per lifetime [Mt]: 124.81
Mass flow [kg/s]: 108.34
Outer diameter [m]: 1.22
Inner coating layer [micro-m]: 65
Steel layer [mm]: 27.09
Epoxy resin layer [mm]: 0.15
HDPE layer [mm]: 3

Source

Scientific journal publication

C. Tsiklios, M. Hermesmann, T.E. Müller, Hydrogen transport in large-scale distribution pipeline networks: Thermodynamic and environmental assessment of repurposed and new pipeline configurations, Applied Energy, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120097

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Dataset details

Classification
Hydrogen distribution (energy/hydrogen/distribution)
Background database
ecoinvent / 3.7
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.7
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Classification path: Energy > Hydrogen > Hydrogen distribution

Keywords

  • hydrogen
  • hydrogen distribution

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Technology profile

Technology characterization

Scale, utilization, production, and lifetime data. Missing values remain visible to guide future metadata improvements.

Commercial maturity stage
Early commercial
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
Not provided

Inventory workspace

Inventory & impacts

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Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per kilometer, 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 189.7 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer
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 1.30294 mol H+-Eq / kilometer
Climate change 189.7 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer
Freshwater ecotoxicity 456.166 CTUe / kilometer
Freshwater eutrophication 0.027606 kg P-Eq / kilometer
Marine eutrophication 0.589019 kg N-Eq / kilometer
Terrestrial eutrophication 6.39018 mol N-Eq / kilometer
Human toxicity, cancer 8.9788e-08 CTUh / kilometer
Human toxicity, non-cancer 1.1526e-06 CTUh / kilometer
Ionising radiation 69.6492 kBq U235-Eq / kilometer
Land use 2587.24 dimensionless / kilometer
Ozone depletion 4.6578e-06 kg CFC-11-Eq / kilometer
Particulate matter 3.1371e-05 disease incidence / kilometer
Photochemical ozone formation 1.93598 kg NMVOC-Eq / kilometer
Resource use, fossils 2881.64 MJ, net calorific value / kilometer
Resource use, minerals and metals 0.000266185 kg Sb-Eq / kilometer
Water use 143.252 m3 world Eq deprived / kilometer
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 13:57 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
hydrogen distribution pipeline installation
RER
pipeline, for hydrogen distribution
1
kilometer - Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs

4 rows

Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
excavation, hydraulic digger
RER
excavation, hydraulic digger
12
cubic meter
Metadata (11)
U1
1.5
U2
1.2
U3
1.5
U4
1.1
U5
2
U6
2
Ub
3
Loc
2.4849066497880004
Scale
0.7967094948727265
Comment
installation
Uncertainty type
2
6.84474 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer 3.6% of total
BAFU:2025
excavation, skid-steer loader
RER
excavation, skid-steer loader
190
cubic meter
Metadata (11)
U1
1.5
U2
1.2
U3
1.5
U4
1.1
U5
2
U6
2
Ub
3
Loc
5.247024072160486
Scale
0.7967094948727265
Comment
installation
Uncertainty type
2
105.587 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer 55.7% of total
BAFU:2025
market for sand
CH
sand
2.28e+04
kilogram
Metadata (11)
U1
1.5
U2
1.2
U3
1.5
U4
1.1
U5
2
U6
1.05
Ub
3
Loc
10.034515814942532
Scale
0.7177937626997916
Comment
installation
Uncertainty type
2
57.1634 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer 30.1% of total
BAFU:2025
market for transport, freight train
Europe without Switzerland
transport, freight train
1201.71
ton kilometer
Metadata (11)
U1
1.5
U2
1.2
U3
1.5
U4
1.1
U5
2
U6
2
Ub
3
Loc
7.091504898941659
Scale
0.7967094948727265
Comment
installation
Uncertainty type
2
20.1048 kg CO2-Eq / kilometer 10.6% of total
BAFU:2025

Parameters

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Quality & review

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Quality and maturity

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
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: Not requested

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

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