CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Flow batteries

periphery part production, for RFB

Reference product periphery part for one cell, 5kW/ 40kWh RER

Published Version 1.0.0 Latest published

Stable dataset identity periphery-part-production-for-rfb

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Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Published inventory

Overview

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Description

The original inventory is presented in: "Zhang, S., Ramanujam, A. S., Arvidsson, R., Michieletto, A., & Schubert, U. S. (2025). Prospective life cycle assessment of organic redox flow batteries. EES Batteries. doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EB00027G"

Source

Scientific journal publication

Zhang, S., Ramanujam, A. S., Arvidsson, R., Michieletto, A., & Schubert, U. S. (2025). Prospective life cycle assessment of organic redox flow batteries. EES Batteries. doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EB00027G

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Dataset details

Classification
Flow batteries (materials/batteries/flow-batteries)
Background database
ecoinvent / 3.9
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.9
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Classification path: Materials > Batteries > Flow batteries

Keywords

  • batteries
  • flow batteries

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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
Pilot
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 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 413.41 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 5.41806 mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change 413.41 kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity 3063.05 CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication 1.75292 kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication 0.554278 kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication 5.4055 mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer 9.4249e-07 CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer 3.1161e-05 CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation 101.065 kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use 3164.5 dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion 2.9424e-05 kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter 1.9673e-05 disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation 1.90541 kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils 5513.57 MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals 0.269744 kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use 2224.36 m3 world Eq deprived / unit
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 13:47 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
periphery part production, for RFB
RER
periphery part for one cell, 5kW/ 40kWh
1
unit - 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
copper cable production, for VRFB system
RER
copper cable, for VRFB system
0.62
kilogram -
5.34467 kg CO2-Eq / unit 1.3% of total
CLIC v1.0.0
inverter production, 5kW
RER
inverter, 5kW
1
unit -
370.625 kg CO2-Eq / unit 89.7% of total
CLIC v1.0.0
pipe production, for RFB
RER
pipe, for RFB
0.34
kilogram -
0.898039 kg CO2-Eq / unit 0.2% of total
CLIC v1.0.0
pump production, 500W, for RFB
GLO
pump, 500W
2
unit -
36.5415 kg CO2-Eq / unit 8.8% of total
CLIC v1.0.0

Parameters

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Evidence and scrutiny

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: Requested

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