Life cycle assessment of lithium-ion batteries for greenhouse gas emissions

Yuhan Liang; Jing Su; Beidou Xi; Yajuan Yu; Danfeng Ji; Yuanyuan Sun; Chifei Cui; Jianchao Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.08.028

Life cycle assessment of lithium-ion batteries for greenhouse gas emissions

Yuhan Liang
, Jing Su^*
, Beidou Xi
, Yajuan Yu
, Danfeng Ji
, Yuanyuan Sun
, Chifei Cui
, Jianchao Zhu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Material Science and Engineering

Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
Lanzhou Jiaotong University

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Abstract

The optimized design of lithium ion secondary batteries using combination of carbon footprints and life cycle assessment (LCA) was proposed in this study. The carbon footprints of the batteries were obtained by four stages, and relevant reduction strategies were implemented accordingly. The carbon footprints of three different batteries were compared in this study: lithium ion secondary battery, nickel metal hydride battery and solar cell were evaluated. The result indicated that the carbon dioxide equivalence of the assembly process for raw materials sequence was nickel metal hydride battery (124 kg CO_2eq) > solar cell (95.8 kg CO_2eq)> lithium ion secondary battery (12.7 kg CO_2eq). The result also proposed the lithium ion batteries' environmental friendliness with numeric illustration and the calculation of carbon footprints of the product was developed as reference to battery selection for human use.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	285-293
Number of pages	9
Journal	Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Volume	117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.08.028
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2017

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Carbon footprints
Life cycle assessment
Lithium ion secondary batteries

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