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Life Cycle Assessment Commons

USLCI Quarterly Release: Winter 2022 Update Version 1

Happy New Year! The USLCI Winter Quarter 2022 release is ready. The new release is available on the Federal LCA Commons in the NREL USLCI group repository:  https://www.lcacommons.gov, and the update in openLCA, zolca, and JSON-LD format can also be downloaded from the USLCI GitHub Support Content Downloads page. 

 

Overview of USLCI 2022 Winter Quarter Changes:

  • Updated emissions for e-glass dataset
  • Updated water consumption recycled postconsumer polyethylene terephthalate, PET flake
  • New steel hot rolled coil dataset
  • New steel pickled hot rolled coil dataset
  • New steel cold rolled coil dataset
  • New steel hot-dip galvanized coil dataset
  • New steel plate dataset
  • New steel section dataset
  • Updated propylene oxide dataset
  • Updated ethylene oxide dataset
  • Updated Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, ABS, copolymer resin dataset
  • Updated Polypol ether, for flexible foam polyurethane production dataset
  • Removed dated steel hot rolled sheet, steel cold rolled sheet datasets, and galvanized steel sheet

There is also now a method available to run USLCI results in openLCA with different versions of IPCC global warming potentials (AR4, AR5, AR6). 

More details are available in the USLCI Press Release brief. The Change Log is here and USLCI Content Support is available at https://github.com/uslci-admin/uslci-content/wiki, which includes access to archived versions of the USLCI.   

Please see the "How to Publish in the USLCI" section in the USLCI Data Submission Handbook and/or contact the USLCI Data Curator (uslci@erg.com) if you have any USLCI publishing goals for the next release date, March 30, 2023.

Please contact lci@nrel.gov and/or uslci@erg.com with any questions or concerns you may have about submitting data to the USLCI Database. Thank you for your continued support!

To be added to the USLCI updates please email us at USLCI@erg.com. Thank you for your continued support!