biogas, burned in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell 2kWe, future, UPR, ecoinvent 3.6, Undefined

Categories:
ISIC4 categories:
E:Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities/38:Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery/382:Waste treatment and disposal/3821:Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste
Location:
GLO - Global
Reference year: 2000 - 2005
Description

Location: GLO - Global
The multioutput-process 'biogas, burned in PEM fuel cell 2kWe delivers the coproducts 'heat, biogas, allocation exergy, at PEM fuel cell 2kWe' and 'electricity, biogas, allocation exergy, at PEM fuel cell 2kWe'. The exergy allocation is the allocation scheme suggested to be used within the ecoinvent database (e.g. in electricity mixes).
[The full documentation of this dataset was originally provided in the corresponding ecoinvent report from the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, which is accessible for free to guests and users of ecoinvent version 2 (https://www.ecoinvent.org/login-databases.html). The dataset may subsequently have been subjected to central changes to the database, as described in the respective change report for each new release.]
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.

Technology

polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell for stationary cogeneration. Performance, stack lifetime and catalyst use according to expected future values for a serial product. Operation with refined biogas from low pressure gas network. Electrical efficiency 32%, total efficiency 87%.

Process type
Unit
Supported nomenclature
ecoinvent 3.6
LCI modeling approach
Before modeling
Multifunctional modeling
NONE
Format
ECOSPOLD2
Aggregation type
NOT_APPLICABLE
Data provider
ecoinvent
Review status
External
Cost
For sale
License

ecoinvent EULA