ME 599 Life Cycle Assessment: LCA Data Sources Winter Quarter 2008 ME599 LCA Class Homepage UWME Design for Environment Homepage Previous Class Projects LCA of Hot Mix Asphalt and Porous Pavement Parking Lots LCA of a Carbon Capture and Sequestration Process at the UW Power Plant LCA of Conventional and Organic Apples Grown in Yakima, WA LCA of Flooring Materials: Oak vs. Bamboo LCA of Magnetic Semiconductor Materials in Microprocessor Chips LCA of Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells LCA the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue HH-65B Dolphin and HH-60J Jayhawk Helicopters LCA Comparing the Development Of Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants in Alaska LCA of the Ford Escape Hybrid FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS DATA ECOINVENT GREET UWME GREET Data Extraction GREET 1.7 GREET 2.7 Also see the GREET website Commodity Flow Survey Data Database project website BEES APME Plastics data Research Triangle Institute Municipal Solid Waste Project ESTIMATION METHODS The USEPA’s Clearinghouse for Inventories & Emissions Factors (such as the Factor Information Retrieval (FIRE) Data System or the Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors (AP-42)) Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality MAERS Support Resources Emission estimation technique manuals developed by the Australian Government’s Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Energy consumption for casting processes The UWME Transformation Process dataset PROCESS DESCRIPTION GUIDANCE The USEPA sector notebooks (each include substantial information on pollution prevention) FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT TRACI Data FRED data Normalization data: Annual Energy Review http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/perspectives.pdf International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org/statist/index.htm Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 1999 Update Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/msw2001.pdf Air Quality Trends Summary Report 1999 http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/2002_airtrends_final.pdf World Resources Institute; Facts and Figures - http://www.wri.org/facts/ Toxic Release Inventory: Public Data Release http://www.epa.gov/triinter/tridata/tri01/pdr/index.htm DOE Energy Information Administration web site:http://www.eia.doe.gov Benchmarking Air Emissions of Electric Utility Generators in the U.S. (1996): http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/util/index.asp For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu
ME 599 Life Cycle Assessment: LCA Data Sources
Winter Quarter 2008
ME599 LCA Class Homepage
UWME Design for Environment Homepage
Previous Class Projects LCA of Hot Mix Asphalt and Porous Pavement Parking Lots LCA of a Carbon Capture and Sequestration Process at the UW Power Plant LCA of Conventional and Organic Apples Grown in Yakima, WA LCA of Flooring Materials: Oak vs. Bamboo LCA of Magnetic Semiconductor Materials in Microprocessor Chips LCA of Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells LCA the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue HH-65B Dolphin and HH-60J Jayhawk Helicopters LCA Comparing the Development Of Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants in Alaska LCA of the Ford Escape Hybrid FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS DATA ECOINVENT GREET UWME GREET Data Extraction GREET 1.7 GREET 2.7 Also see the GREET website Commodity Flow Survey Data Database project website BEES APME Plastics data Research Triangle Institute Municipal Solid Waste Project ESTIMATION METHODS The USEPA’s Clearinghouse for Inventories & Emissions Factors (such as the Factor Information Retrieval (FIRE) Data System or the Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors (AP-42)) Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality MAERS Support Resources Emission estimation technique manuals developed by the Australian Government’s Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Energy consumption for casting processes The UWME Transformation Process dataset PROCESS DESCRIPTION GUIDANCE The USEPA sector notebooks (each include substantial information on pollution prevention) FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT TRACI Data FRED data Normalization data: Annual Energy Review http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/perspectives.pdf International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org/statist/index.htm Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 1999 Update Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/msw2001.pdf Air Quality Trends Summary Report 1999 http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/2002_airtrends_final.pdf World Resources Institute; Facts and Figures - http://www.wri.org/facts/ Toxic Release Inventory: Public Data Release http://www.epa.gov/triinter/tridata/tri01/pdr/index.htm DOE Energy Information Administration web site:http://www.eia.doe.gov Benchmarking Air Emissions of Electric Utility Generators in the U.S. (1996): http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/util/index.asp
Previous Class Projects
LCA of Hot Mix Asphalt and Porous Pavement Parking Lots
LCA of a Carbon Capture and Sequestration Process at the UW Power Plant
LCA of Conventional and Organic Apples Grown in Yakima, WA
LCA of Flooring Materials: Oak vs. Bamboo
LCA of Magnetic Semiconductor Materials in Microprocessor Chips
LCA of Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
LCA the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue HH-65B Dolphin and HH-60J Jayhawk Helicopters
LCA Comparing the Development Of Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants in Alaska
LCA of the Ford Escape Hybrid
FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS
DATA
ECOINVENT
GREET
UWME GREET Data Extraction
GREET 1.7
GREET 2.7
Also see the GREET website
Commodity Flow Survey Data
Database project website
BEES
APME Plastics data
Research Triangle Institute Municipal Solid Waste Project
ESTIMATION METHODS
The USEPA’s Clearinghouse for Inventories & Emissions Factors (such as the Factor Information Retrieval (FIRE) Data System or the Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors (AP-42))
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality MAERS Support Resources
Emission estimation technique manuals developed by the Australian Government’s Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage
The UWME Transformation Process dataset
PROCESS DESCRIPTION GUIDANCE
The USEPA sector notebooks (each include substantial information on pollution prevention)
FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT
TRACI Data
FRED data
Normalization data:
DOE Energy Information Administration web site:http://www.eia.doe.gov
Benchmarking Air Emissions of Electric Utility Generators in the U.S. (1996): http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/util/index.asp
For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu
