Location: GLO - Global
The infrastructure module includes 2 building halls of 15 m height with a floor area of 3000 m2 each, totalling to a storage capacitiy of about 30000 m3. The life time of the tanks was assumed to be 50 years. This infrastructure module has a high uncertainty and should only be seen as an approximation of the infrastructure for regional storage of solid chemicals.
[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.