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Process Data set: Alkyd dispersion; Technology mix; Production mix, at plant; Without water (en) en

Key Data Set Information
Location EU+EFTA+UK
Geographical representativeness description European dataset. Representative data for Europe has been used for the foreground and background systems.
Reference year 2019
Name
Base name ; Treatment, standards, routes ; Mix and location types ; Quantitative product or process properties
Alkyd dispersion; Technology mix; Production mix, at plant; Without water
Use advice for data set Notice: this data set supersedes the EF3.0-compliant version (see link under "preceding data set version" below calculated with the EF3.0). The life cycle inventory is not changed from the original EF3.0 data set. The LCIA results are calculated based on the EF3.1 methods which provide updated characterisation factors in the following impact categories: Climate Change, Ecotoxicity freshwater, Photochemical Ozone Formation, Acidification, Human Toxicity non-cancer, and Human Toxicity cancer. The review report and the data quality ratings refer to the original results. The data set has been updated by the European Commission on the basis of the original EF3.0 data set delivered by the data provider.
Technical purpose of product or process Chemical substance used in the production of decorative coatings
Complementing processes
Classification
Class name : Hierarchy level
  • ILCD: Materials production / Organic chemicals
General comment on data set The dataset represents the manufacture of polymer dispersions in Europe. It is based on the LCA models created for the latest EPDLA LCA finished in April 2021, which have been updated with PEF-compliant background sources based on Ecoinvent and process-based EF-compliant LCI datasets for energy and transport. The inventory is based on production data from EPDLA members from 2019. The intended use of the dataset is within the context of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Biogenic carbon content 0%. Water content 0%
Copyright Yes
Owner of data set
Quantitative reference
Reference flow(s)
Biogenic carbon content
  • Carbon content (biogenic): ND kg
Time representativeness
Data set valid until 2024
Time representativeness description Annual average data. No intra-annual or intra-daily differences have been made. Representative data for the year 2012 has been used. Data set valid until end of 2024.
Technological representativeness
Technology description including background system In the technology description below, specific dataset names refer to the original modelling based on Ecoinvent 3.3. They might have been updated using the names of the equivalent EF-compliant datasets (In particular transport, infrastructure, water, heat, energy and waste datasets). Average production data from EPDLA members from 2019 was considered. Process description: The global market of fatty acids was considered. For acid anhydrides phthalic anhydride was considered. For poly alcohols pentaerythritol was considerd. Activities include the transport of raw materials, production and packaging of resin. In this version of the model, the product was not dispersed in water.
Flow diagram(s) or picture(s)
  • diagram for Alkyd dispersion; without water (d52d67d4) Image
  • General diagram, system boundaries, chemPaint Image
LCI method and allocation
Type of data set Partly terminated system
LCI Method Principle Attributional
Deviation from LCI method principle / explanations None
LCI method approaches
  • Allocation - mass
Deviations from LCI method approaches / explanations Allocation following the ISO 14044 hierarchy. In the foreground system, circular-footprint formula (CFF) approach is applied; the systems does not contain end-of-life co-product or secondary material input in the foreground. The background data uses EF compliant datasets when available, with respective implementation of the CFF approach. When no EF complaint dataset is available, the background is modelled with use of the datasets based on the “Recycled content cut-off” approach to allocate end-of-life by-products and secondary materials. This allocation is explained in the description of the recycled content system model (http://www.ecoinvent.org/database/system-models-in-ecoinvent-3/cut-off-system-model/allocation-cut-off-by-classification.html).
Modelling constants Direct Land Use change: Land use is inventoried through the use of data on: • Land occupation for the current land use (the occupied land is prevented from changing to a more natural state). • Land transformation (from previous land use and to current land use, e.g., the conversion of a former natural area to industrial land; the conversion of a gravel quarry to a natural area by active re-cultivation). Direct land use change is accounted for on the basis of a 20 year time period and implemented in the calculation of Climate Change according to the PAS2050-1:2012 method and Land Use. It should be noted that the land use classes are not intended to capture specific emissions, such as the CO2 emissions after forest clearing. Such emissions are therefore separately included in the datasets for the specific crops that are grown on such recently transformed land. Carbon storage and delayed emissions: All emissions are considered and therefore no credits are given. Emissions off-setting: No offsets are considered. Time period: No time discounting is reported. Emissions and removals are modelled as if released or removed at the beginning of the assessment method. GHG Emission fossil: All GHG emissions from fossil fuels (including peat and limestone) are modelled consistently with the most updated ILCD list of elementary flows. Carbon emissions and uptakes (biogenic): A distinction is made between fossil and non-fossil sources of CO2, CO and CH4. The sources of fossil carbon are the resource inputs of fossil fuels, peat, and mineral carbonates . The resource consumption of “Carbon dioxide, in air” is calculated from the carbon in harvested plants and wild animals and increases in carbon stored in soils and plants. The latter is recorded as an output of “Carbon dioxide, to soil or biomass stock”. “Carbon dioxide, in air” is the only source of non-fossil carbon, which is mainly captured through the biological photosynthesis. Carbon emissions and uptakes – land use and transformation: Reductions in the carbon stored in soils and the release of carbon from the burning of biomass residues in connection to land transformation, e.g. the clear-cutting of primary forests, are recorded in the elementary exchange (resource) “Carbon, organic, in soil or biomass stock”. All of this input is included in the corresponding emissions of Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide, and Methane, all with the addition “…, from soil or biomass stock”, and therefore does not contribute to any carbon content of any intermediate exchanges (Overview and methodology Ecoinvent. Section 5.6.2 Fossil and non-fossil carbon). Capital goods are excluded in the foreground modelling as cut-off.
Deviation from modelling constants / explanations None
Data sources, treatment and representativeness
Data cut-off and completeness principles Cut-offs: Capital goods are estimated to fall under cut-off of 3% based on expert judgement. To the best knowledge, there are no other cut-offs as all known energy and material flows within the system boundaries are considered. The reason for this is because all raw materials, transport, and production needs are directly related to the production and completion of the polymer dispersion families up to the factory gate. System boundaries: System boundaries include all processes linked to the product supply chain, i.e. extraction, production, transport, packaging, energy consumption, water consumption and waste treatment activities.
Deviation from data cut-off and completeness principles / explanations Capital goods (including infrastructures) and their End of Life: excluded from the system boundaries as deemed not directly relevant for the production of polymer dispersions by primary data provider.
Data selection and combination principles Data is consistently based on literature sources, theoretical models and adapted datasets from databases. The relevant background data is sourced from EF3.0 core databases and EF3.0 for chemicals. When processes in these databases were not available, ecoinvent v3.3 database (www.ecoinvent.org) and LCI for background datasets provided by the dataprovider were used.
Deviation from data selection and combination principles / explanations None
Data treatment and extrapolations principles No adjustments and extrapolations are performed at primary level.
Deviation from data treatment and extrapolations principles / explanations None
Data source(s) used for this data set
Percentage supply or production covered 50.0 %
Completeness
Completeness of product model All relevant flows quantified
Supported impact assessment methods
Completeness elementary flows, per topic
  • Particulate matter/respiratory inorganics: All relevant flows quantified
  • Renewable primary energy consumption: All relevant flows quantified
  • Non-renewable primary energy depletion: All relevant flows quantified
  • Renewable material resource consumption: All relevant flows quantified
  • Non-renewable material resource depletion: All relevant flows quantified
  • Land use: All relevant flows quantified
  • Radioactivity: All relevant flows quantified
  • Terrestric eco-toxicity: All relevant flows quantified
  • Seawater eco-toxicity: All relevant flows quantified
  • Freshwater ecotoxicity: All relevant flows quantified
  • Human toxicity: All relevant flows quantified
  • Acidification: All relevant flows quantified
  • Eutrophication: All relevant flows quantified
  • Summer smog: All relevant flows quantified
  • Ozone depletion: All relevant flows quantified
  • Climate change: All relevant flows quantified
Validation
Type of review Scope / Method(s) of review Data quality indicators
Independent external review
Scope name Method name
Unit process(es), single operation
  • Expert judgement
  • Documentation
Documentation
  • Expert judgement
  • Documentation
LCIA results
  • Sample tests on calculations
  • Documentation
LCI results or Partly terminated system
  • Expert judgement
  • Documentation
  • Overall quality: Good - 1.7
  • Methodological appropriateness and consistency: Not applicable
  • Precision: Very good - 1.0
  • Geographical representativeness: Fair - 2.4
  • Time representativeness: Very good - 1.5
  • Technological representativeness: Good - 2.0
Reviewer name and institution Complete review report
Compliance Declarations
Compliance
Compliance system name
Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant
Review compliance
Fully compliant
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant
Quality compliance
Not defined
Compliance
Compliance system name
Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant
Review compliance
Fully compliant
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant
Quality compliance
Fully compliant
Compliance
Compliance system name
Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant
Nomenclature compliance
Not defined
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant
Review compliance
Fully compliant
Documentation compliance
Not defined
Quality compliance
Not defined
Compliance
Compliance system name
Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant
Nomenclature compliance
Not defined
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant
Review compliance
Not defined
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant
Quality compliance
Not defined
Compliance
Compliance system name
Approval of overall compliance
Not defined
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant
Methodological compliance
Not defined
Review compliance
Not defined
Documentation compliance
Not defined
Quality compliance
Not defined
Commissioner and goal
Commissioner of data set
Project Provision of "Chemicals for paints" process-based product environmental footprint-compliant life cycle inventory datasets. Contract number: 070201/2019/819371/SER/ENV.B.l.
Intended applications To be used in the implementation of a regular Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) studies and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) studies exclusively under the specified Product groups and sectors as defined in the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) and Organisation Environmental Footprint Sectorial Rules (OEFSR) listed in http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/PEFCR_OEFSR.htm and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the EULA exclusively until 31st December 2024.
Data generator
Data set generator / modeller
Data entry by
Time stamp (last saved) 2022-11-21T07:25:12.528+01:00
Data set format(s)
Data entry by
Publication and ownership
UUID d52d67d4-d1ce-487a-83b3-bf95ef39b619
Date of last revision 2022-01-28T07:59:32+01:00
Data set version 03.01.000
Preceding Data set version
Workflow and publication status Data set finalised; entirely published
Owner of data set
Copyright Yes
Reference to entities with exclusive access
License type Free of charge for some user types or use types
Access and use restrictions To be used for the implementation of regular Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) studies and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) studies exclusively under the specified Product groups and sectors as defined in the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) and Organisation Environmental Footprint Sectorial Rules (OEFSR) listed in http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/PEFCR_OEFSR.htm and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the EULA (available at https://lcdn-cepe.org/) exclusively until 31st December 2024. Any use of this dataset or any derivative data not within the specific context of one of the PEF/OEF projects or after the end of 2024 is not permitted.

Inputs

Type of flow Classification Flow Location Mean amount Resulting amount Minimum amount Maximum amount
Product flow Other Services / Other services 1.0 kg1.0 kg
Product flow Other Services / Other services 1.0 kg1.0 kg
Product flow 600.0 kg600.0 kg
Product flow 1.019999999999999 kg1.019999999999999 kg
Product flow 0.0 kg0.0 kg

Outputs

Type of flow Classification Flow Location Mean amount Resulting amount Minimum amount Maximum amount
Product flow
Materials production / Other materials 1.0 kg1.0 kg
General comment Alkyd dispersion; without water
LCIA Method Data set Mean amount Unit Kommentar
0.02095552095247209
mol H+ equivalents
2.2181617013214474
kg CO2 Equivalents
1.412654866396E-6
disease incidence
38.22504227864335
CTUe
0.01103438947326
kg N equivalents
2.62699641753E-4
kg P equivalents
0.0691293871759
mol N equivalents
3.108137459053306E-9
CTUh
2.684303502296353E-8
CTUh
0.2793069057645
kBq U235 equivalents
110.5894881671
dimensionless (pt)
8.928357926349E-9
kg CFC11 equivalents
0.009326871478397843
kg NMVOC equivalents
32.07963162915
MJ
6.188147152255E-6
kg Sb equivalents
2.09718641444
m3-world equivalents