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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Battery Storage Systems for Stationary Applications
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posted on 2015-04-21, 00:00 authored by Mitavachan Hiremath, Karen Derendorf, Thomas VogtThis
paper presents a comparative life cycle assessment of cumulative
energy demand (CED) and global warming potential (GWP) of four stationary
battery technologies: lithium-ion, lead-acid, sodium–sulfur,
and vanadium-redox-flow. The analyses were carried out for a complete
utilization of their cycle life and for six different stationary applications.
Due to its lower CED and GWP impacts, a qualitative analysis of lithium-ion
was carried out to assess the impacts of its process chains on 17
midpoint impact categories using ReCiPe-2008 methodology. It was found
that in general the use stage of batteries dominates their life cycle
impacts significantly. It is therefore misleading to compare the environmental
performance of batteries only on a mass or capacity basis at the manufacturing
outlet (“cradle-to-gate analyses”) while neglecting
their use stage impacts, especially when they have different characteristic
parameters. Furthermore, the relative ranking of batteries does not
show a significant dependency on the investigated stationary application
scenarios in most cases. Based on the results obtained, the authors
go on to recommend the deployment of batteries with higher round-trip
efficiency, such as lithium-ion, for stationary grid operation in
the first instance.
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life cycle impactsbattery technologiesgrid operationGWP impacts17 midpoint impact categoriesBattery Storage SystemsCEDapplication scenarioscycle lifecapacity basisuse stage impactsanalysesStationary ApplicationsThis paperenergy demandprocess chainsComparative Life Cycle Assessmentlife cycle assessmentuse stagebatterie
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