CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Flow batteries

pipes assembly, for VRFB system

Reference product pipes, for VRFB system RER

Published Version 1.0.1 Latest published

Stable dataset identity pipes-assembly-for-vrfb-system

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kilogram
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CC BY 4.0
Published
2026-07-21
Version
1.0.1
Technology maturity
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Overview

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Description

The pipes are steel pipes with a Teflon® lining. The required length of the cables is derived from the stack geometry so that a length of 30 meters is required for each electrolyte circuit. In addition, 5 meters of pipeline per stack are required. It is assumed that a standard pipe with the diameter DN 418 50 (60.3 mm) is used and that the Teflon® lining is 1 mm. By means of the density and the 419 dimensions, the required quantity of steel and Teflon® can be calculated. Since there is no ecoinvent dataset for Teflon®, TFE is used as approximation. The ecoinvent standard distances are applied for steel and plastics respectively.

Source

Scientific journal publication

Life Cycle Assessment of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery, Selina Weber, Jens F. Peters, Manuel Baumann, and Marcel Weil, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52, 10864−10873, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02073

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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
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
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Modified exchanges

Exchange Field Previous value Revised value
pipes assembly, for VRFB system (production / RER / kilogram)
Production 		Linked database record vanadium-redox-flow-battery / 3781de32017acc8ee71550ffc8f42e92 Not set

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Inventory & impacts

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Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per kilogram, 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 16.64 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Screening result

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Acidification 0.0304994 mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change 16.64 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity 31.4627 CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication 0.00207443 kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication 0.00479263 kg N-Eq / kilogram
Terrestrial eutrophication 0.0499277 mol N-Eq / kilogram
Human toxicity, cancer 8.1688e-08 CTUh / kilogram
Human toxicity, non-cancer 2.4264e-07 CTUh / kilogram
Ionising radiation 1.4553 kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
Land use 23.2139 dimensionless / kilogram
Ozone depletion 0.000350111 kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
Particulate matter 3.8074e-07 disease incidence / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation 0.0197298 kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils 90.4649 MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals 0.000122287 kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use 1.7194 m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 13:49 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
pipes assembly, for VRFB system
RER
pipes, for VRFB system
1
kilogram - 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 steel, chromium steel 18/8
GLO
steel, chromium steel 18/8
0.87
kilogram
Metadata (1)
Comment
Steel, material
3.84583 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 23.1% of total
BAFU:2025
market for tetrafluoroethylene film, on glass
GLO
tetrafluoroethylene film, on glass
0.13
kilogram
Metadata (1)
Comment
Teflon® lining
12.3938 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 74.5% of total
BAFU:2025
market for drawing of pipe, steel
GLO
drawing of pipe, steel
0.87
kilogram
Metadata (1)
Comment
Processing, steel
0.374829 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 2.3% of total
BAFU:2025
market for transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO5
RER
transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO5
0.1
ton kilometer
Metadata (1)
Comment
Transport, lorry
0.0221824 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.1% of total
BAFU:2025
market for transport, freight train
Europe without Switzerland
transport, freight train
0.2
ton kilometer
Metadata (1)
Comment
Transport, train
0.00334602 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
BAFU:2025

Parameters

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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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Version 1.0.0 2026-07-15 Open version
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