ME 515 Life Cycle Assessment: More LCA Data Sources Fall Quarter 2009 ME515 LCA Class Homepage UWME Design for Environment Homepage FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS Data extracted especially for class GREET data USDB data CFS data LCA DATA Database project website (START HERE) Argonne National Lab's GREET see the GREET website for the most recent version of GREET Building materials: BEES RTI Municipal Solid Waste Decision Support Tool Chemical process modeling: Overcash M. et al, “Methodology for Developing Gate-to-Gate Life Cycle Inventory Information.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 5 (3)(2000) p. 153 - 159 ETHZ's Finechem also see background document and supplemental information Emission Factors, Models, and Process Descriptions (useful data and information, but not developed for LCA) EPA Emission Modeling Clearing House The USEPA's AP-42 USEPA's NONROAD Model (nonroad engines, equipment, and vehicles) On-Road Vehicles (cars, trucks, and motorcycles) MOBILE Model (on-road vehicles) Mobile Source Air Toxics IPCC EFDB: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Emissions Factor Database The USEPA's AP-42 Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality MAERS Support Resources US transportation distances: Commodity Flow Survey Data Transformation Processes (machining, casting...) Gutowski, T. et al. “A Thermodynamic Characterization of Manufacturing Processes” IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Environment, Orlando, FL, USA May 7, 2007 Energy consumption for casting processes The UWME Transformation Process dataset (old) Pollution Prevention Manuals (primarily alternative process descriptions) The USEPA sector notebooks Emission estimation technique manuals developed by the Australian Government’s Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage 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