Scope, source, release context, and stable identifying information.
Description
The power capacity for this application is 1MW and the net storage capacity 6 MWh. The net capacity considers the internal inefficiencies of the batteries and the min SoC, requiring a certain oversizing of the batteries. For providing net 6 MWh, a nominal capacity of 8.3 MWh is required for the VRFB with the assumed operation parameters. The assumed lifetime of the stack is 10 years. The lifetime of the system is 20 years or 8176 cycle-lifes (49,000 MWh).
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
Scale, utilization, production, and lifetime data. Missing values remain visible to guide future metadata improvements.
Commercial maturity stage
Early commercial
Design capacity
1
Design capacity unit
MW
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
Inspect every exchange and its contribution to the selected EF v3.1 indicator.
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.
Acidification2201.58
mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change123022
kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity711365
CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication72.5775
kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication143.917
kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication1619.26
mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer0.000304813
CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer0.00133133
CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation33702.7
kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use477297
dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion0.865536
kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter0.00529202
disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation536.141
kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils1.8705e+06
MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals0.376303
kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use641881
m3 world Eq deprived / 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
Acidification2201.58
mol H+-Eq / unit
Climate change123022
kg CO2-Eq / unit
Freshwater ecotoxicity711365
CTUe / unit
Freshwater eutrophication72.5775
kg P-Eq / unit
Marine eutrophication143.917
kg N-Eq / unit
Terrestrial eutrophication1619.26
mol N-Eq / unit
Human toxicity, cancer0.000304813
CTUh / unit
Human toxicity, non-cancer0.00133133
CTUh / unit
Ionising radiation33702.7
kBq U235-Eq / unit
Land use477297
dimensionless / unit
Ozone depletion0.865536
kg CFC-11-Eq / unit
Particulate matter0.00529202
disease incidence / unit
Photochemical ozone formation536.141
kg NMVOC-Eq / unit
Resource use, fossils1.8705e+06
MJ, net calorific value / unit
Resource use, minerals and metals0.376303
kg Sb-Eq / unit
Water use641881
m3 world Eq deprived / unit
Calculation details
Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact
4e70d56a85b1 · calculated
2026-09-30 13:48 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
vanadium-redox flow battery stack assembly
RER
vanadium-redox flow battery stack
1
unit
-
Reference flow
Inputs
Technosphere inputs
7 rows
Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.
Read-only definitions preserved with this inventory version. Values are supplied by the source; CLIC does not evaluate formulas or recalculate exchange amounts and impact scores from them.
No parameter definitions were supplied with this inventory snapshot.
Supply-chain graph
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Current datasetTechnosphere inputsEnvironmental resource inputsEmissions
8 CLIC nodes
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Evidence and scrutiny
Quality & review
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Quality and maturity
TRL scaleHigher is more mature.9: routine commercial deployment8: commercial, but still niche or scaling7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration6: engineering-scale demonstration5: pilot or large prototype4: bench or lab validated3: research-stage conceptTechnology readiness level
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earlymature
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: strong market- or operating-data basis2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective5: weak representation of the real technology stateTechnological representativeness
12345
strongweak
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: geography matches the claimed scope well2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact3: generic regional or global proxy4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch5: geography is effectively unsupportedGeographical representativeness
12345
strongweak
1 to 5 scaleLower is better.1: current for that technology class2: slightly dated, but still good3: dated enough to need caution4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice5: clearly not representative of the current stateTemporal representativeness
12345
strongweak
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Public review record
Curator-led bulk import. Public evidence is shown without participant
accounts, assignments, recommendations, or private editor notes.
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Publication route
Curator-led bulk import
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