Key LCA Inventory Resources

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Key Emission Factor Databases

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Emissions Factor Database (IPCC EFDB)
  The EFDB is a library of emission factors and other parameters for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals. Emission factors for CO2, CH4, N2O, ethers and halogenated ethers, HFCs, PFCs, SF6, NF3, SF5CF3, and other pollutants, GHGs, and precursors are provided in 5 categories: (1) Energy, (2) Industrial processes and product use, (3) agriculture, forestry, and other landuse, (4) waste, and (5) other (e.g., indirect N2O emissions from the atmospheric deposition of nitrogen in NOx and NH3).  Background documentation or technical references are listed. 

  • Note that EFDB at present contains only the IPCC default data (default data presented in the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories). It also contains the data from CORINAIR94, but please note that these data records may be renewed in due course in accordance with the latest version of CORINAIR data set (i.e., data in the Joint EMEP/CORINAIR Atmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook, Third Edition. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency, 2001). It is highly recommended to consult the website at http://reports.eea.eu.int/EMEPCORINAIR4/en for details on CORINAIR data.

  • Access: http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/EFDB/find_ef_s1.php?root=

  • Cost= free

• US Environmental Protection Agency's Technology Transfer Network Clearinghouse for Inventories & Emissions Factors (CHIEF)
  Chief is a library of emission factors, emission inventories and emission modeling tools. It includes for example AP-42, which includes emission factors for external combustion sources, solid waste disposal, stationary internal combustion sources, evaporation loss sources, the petroleum industry, organic chemical process industry, liquid storage tanks, the inorganic chemical industry, fodd and agricultural industries, the wood products industry, the mineral products industry, the metallurgical industry, and greenhouse gas biogenic sources.

  • Access: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/
  • Cost= free

Other

• University of Washington Inventory of Inventory Sources

  • This inventory includes only publicly available information sources (databases, qualitative sources, and computer models) suitable for Life Cycle Assessment and Materials Flow Analysis.

 

Additions or corrections?-- contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu