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Table 9.5 List of process-based LCI databases (not exhaustive)
Name Description References
ecoinvent Swiss database that contains ecoinvent; www.ecoinvent.org
approximately 12,500 processes
(version 3) organised under different
themes like transport, energy, material
production, agriculture, etc. All
processes are available as unit- and
system-processes and all processes are
documented in detail. Updated regularly
ELCD Database of the JRC of the European Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission, contains more than 300 Commission; eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
datasets on energy, material production, ELCD3/index.xhtml
disposal and transport
Agri-footprint A comprehensive LCI database of feed, Blonk Consultants; www.agri-footprint.
food and biomass, containing around com
3500 products and processes
LCA Food Danish database containing more than 2.-0 LCA Consultants and Aarhus
600 data sets on basic food products and University; www.lcafood.dk
related processes from agriculture,
aquaculture, fishery, industry, wholesale
and supermarket, including waste
treatment processes
Swedish Contains more than 500 Competence Centre for Environmental
National LCA well-documented LCI data sets in Assessment of Product and Material
database SPINE format for a wide range of Systems of Chalmers University of
industrial processes and household Technology; cpmdatabase.cpm.
goods and services chalmers.se
GaBi Separate databases mainly based on GaBi; www.gabi-software.com/
databases primary data collection. Cover sectors international/databases/gabi-databases/
from agriculture to electronics and
automotive industries, textiles and retail,
through to services. Contains more than
10,000 Life Cycle Inventory profiles
LC-inventories Over 1000 process data sets, which are The Swiss Federal Office for the
corrections, updates or extensions of Environment and ESU-services; www.
ecoinvent v2.2 database, created by lc-inventories.ch
ESU-Services and other authors
NEEDS Database designed for long-term Members of a European research
environmental assessment. Contains project; www.needs-project.org/
around 800 processes of future energy needswebdb/index.php
supply systems, future material supply,
and future transport services
NREL US-American database with around 300 National Renewable Energy Laboratory;
datasets related to the production of www.nrel.gov/lci
materials, components, or assembly in
the U.S.
ProBas Comprises more than 8000 datasets on German Federal Environmental Agency;
energy, material production, transport www.probas.umweltbundesamt.de/php/
and disposal, different data sources and index.php
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