Life cycle inventories for the article: Circular Battery Production in the EU: Insights from integrating Life Cycle Assessment into System Dynamics Modeling on Recycled Content and Environmental Impacts

This repository provides the unregionalized life cycle inventories to the paper "Ginster, R., Blömeke, S., Popien, J. L., Scheller, C., Cerdas, F., Herrmann, C., & Spengler, T. S. (2024). Circular battery production in the EU: Insights from integrating life cycle assessment into system dynamics modeling on recycled content and environmental impacts. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13527".

Contents

The repository is split into 2 parts and comprises the following files:

01_production: contains the necessary life cycle inventories for battery production.

• 01_primary: contains the life cycle inventories for battery production from primary materials.
• 02_secondary: contains the life cycle inventories for battery production from secondary materials.
• 03_active_material: contains the life cycle inventories for the active battery materials from primary materials.
• 04_active_material: contains the life cycle inventories for the active battery materials from secondary materials.

02_recycling: contains the necessary inventories for battery recycling.

• 01_process: contains the life cycle inventories for battery recycling.
• 02_intermediate: contains the life cycle inventories for the intermediate system for battery recycling.
• 03_output: contains the life cycle inventories for the resulting substances from battery recycling.

Summary

These files allow to reproduce the results of our study. Each file contains the life cycle inventory of one distinct battery capacity (20, 45, 68, 85, 95, 100 kWh) with a specific cell chemistry (LFP, NCA, NMC333, NMC532, NMC622, NMC811, NMC955) for battery production (based on Knehr et al. 2022) or for battery recycling (based on Blömeke et al. 2023).

Related publication

More details on the scientific context is provided in the publication itself:

Ginster, R., Blömeke, S., Popien, J. L., Scheller, C., Cerdas, F., Herrmann, C., & Spengler, T. S. (2024). Circular battery production in the EU: Insights from integrating life cycle assessment into system dynamics modeling on recycled content and environmental impacts. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13527

Funding

This publication (Raphael Ginster and Steffen Blömeke) was created within the Research Training Group CircularLIB, supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony with funds from the program zukunft.niedersachsen of the Volkswagen Foundation (MWK | ZN3678).

The publication on which this dataset is based were funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the Competence Cluster Recycling & Green Battery (greenBatt) under the grant numbers 03XP0302A (Christian Scheller) and 03XP0331A (Jan-Linus Popien). The authors are responsible for the contents of this publication.