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Life Cycle Assessment Commons

USLCI Quarterly Release: Winter 2024 Update

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 formats can also be downloaded from the USLCI GitHub Support Content Downloads page along with the associated libraries.

 

Overview of USLCI 2024 Winter Quarter Changes:

  • Added cobalt ore, crude cobalt hydroxide, and cobalt sulfate datasets from Argonne National Laboratory.
  • Reviewed and revised datasets with multiple product flow outputs and no allocation set. When appropriate, converted product flows into waste flows, applied allocation factors based on the associated publication, or assigned all allocation to the quantitative reference product flow.
  • Replaced multiple non-Federal Elementary Flow List (FEDEFL) with FEDEFL flows. Non-FEDEFL flows that remained were moved to “non-FEDEFL” elementary flow folders.
  • Corrected multiple errors and added additional information to flows and processes. Please see the change log for more details.

 

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 31st, 2025.

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.

 

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