Process information
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| Reference year | 2024 |
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| Use advice for data set | The life cycle assessment of the Safe 36/40.5kV CCV, an EEPS (Electronic and Electrical Products and Systems), is a “cradle-to-grave” analysis. The figure below shows the product life cycle stages and the information considered in the LCA. In terms of exclusions from the system boundary, according to Standard/PCR, capital goods such as machinery, tools, buildings, infrastructure, packaging for internal transports, and administrative activities, which cannot be allocated directly to the production of the reference product, are excluded. Infrastructures, when present, such as in processes deriving from the ecoinvent database, have not been excluded. Scraps for metal working and plastic processes are also included when already defined in ecoinvent. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | The functional unit of this study is a switchgear, which is used to distribute, control and protect the electricity in a new energy power plants and power distribution network, with a nominal voltage of 36/40.5 kV, use rate of 100%, and load rate of 60% for C-module and 15.9% for V-module, during a service life of 20 years in Europe. |
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| General comment on data set | Both primary and secondary data are used. The main sources for primary data are the bill of materials and technical drawings, while site specific foreground data are provided by ABB. Furthermore, information and data obtained from other LCA studies are also used. For all processes for which primary data are not available, generic data originating from the ecoinvent v3.9.1 database, “allocation, cut-off by classification”, are used. The database Industry Data 2.0 is also used for chemical substance which is not available by ecoinvent. The LCA software used for the calculations is SimaPro 9.5. The utility consumption and waste generation at the ABB manufacturing site is allocated to the production of one Safe 36/40.5kV CCV by using allocation rules. This is done by allocating electricity to all standard production volume through work time allocation, natural gas to surface area and production volume, water to the employees of the production line involved and production volume, waste is allocated directly to production volume in the study. For the end-of-life allocation, the “Polluter Pays” principle is adopted according to what is defined in the CEN/TR 16970 standard, as required by the PCR EPDItaly015. This means, waste treatment processes are allocated to the product system that generates the waste until the end-of-waste state is reached. The environmental burdens of recycling and energy recovery processes are therefore allocated to the product system that generates the waste, while the product system that uses the exported energy and recycled materials receives it burden-free. However, the potential benefits and avoided loads from recovery and recycling processes are not considered because it is not required by EPDItaly015. According to PCR EPDItaly-015: “Materials making up the switchboard itself whose total mass does not exceed 2 % of the total weight of the device”, the cut-off criteria can be set to a maximum of 2 % of the total weight. In this LCA, stickers have been excluded as their weights are negligible. Material grease, wire connecting terminal and surface treatment process of black oxide for steel and aluminum have also been excluded due to the unavailability of data and complexity of modelling. |
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| Data set valid until | 2029 |
| Time representativeness description | 2024-01-16 - 2029-01-16 |
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Modelling and validation
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EN 15804+A2
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Fully compliant |
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant |
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant |
Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
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Fully compliant |
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Methodological compliance
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Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
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Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant |
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant |
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant |
Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
Administrative information
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| Time stamp (last saved) | 2025-09-28T20:32:49 |
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| UUID | 8213427d-4eaa-4c02-ae35-b2bd1c5be45c |
| Date of last revision | 2025-09-26T11:12:24.0963422Z |
| Data set version | 00.03.000 |
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| Registration number | NEPD-5806-4975-EN |
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| Copyright | Yes |
| License type | Free of charge for all users and uses |
| Access and use restrictions | None |
Environmental indicators
Indicators of life cycle