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Abstract
This paper calculates the future levelized cost of storage (LCOS) and conducts a prospective life cycle assessment (PLCA) for second-life batteries (SLB) in Flanders,Belgium. A cradle-to-grave approach is chosen for climate change (CC) and economic impacts of SLB. Impacts of processes related to the first and the second life are allocated according to the delivered electricity. Furthermore, impacts are determined according to their temporal occurrence. For LCOS, activities are time adjusted by dis-counting. For PLCA, new background databases are generated and changed based on the activities occurrence in time. Additionally, future CC impact of three Belgian energy paths is modeled, introducing user-defined scenarios of PLCA. To conceptualize impacts, three use cases are defined: (a) residential, (b) industrial and (c) utility use case (UTI). The residential and industrial use cases (INDs) represent photovoltaic(PV) installations with battery storage, the UTI is a large-scale battery participating in the Belgian secondary reserve market. Lowest LCOS of the SLB in 2050 are found in the IND, namely 39.66 €/MWh, and are below the benchmark batteries. CC impact of SLB in the residential is 58.7 gCO2 eq/kWh and below the benchmark batteries. The CC impact of SLB is 75.2 and 78.5 gCO 2 eq/kWh in the industrial and UTI and thus higher than the benchmark batteries. Crucial for both assessments are increased dismantling and repurposing facility throughput, fair charging tariffs, the manufacturing, the charging electricity generated by PV installations, and power electronics. On the contrary,changing the background does not lead to major changes in CC.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1940-1951 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Industrial Ecology |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAVIO) [grant number HBC.2019.0125]. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Re2LiVe partners for sharing their data and providing valuable input for this work, in particular SIRIS, VIL, and VITO. A special thank you for granting access, providing data and discussing the data behind the Belgium Energy Pathways goes to our partners from the Sustainable Energy division at VITO.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Industrial Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Industrial Ecology.
Keywords
- industrial ecology
- levelized cost of storage
- lithium-ion battery
- perspective life cycle assessment
- repurposing
- second-life battery
Projects
- 1 Finished
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VLAVIL2: COOCK Project Re2LiVe : Re-cycling & Re-manufactring of Li-ion batteries from end of life electric Vehicles
1/01/20 → 30/06/22
Project: Applied
Datasets
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User-defined scenarios to update future electricity mixes of Belgium using PLCA
Huber, D. (Creator), Van Den Oever, A. (Data Collector), Lavigne Philippot, M. (Data Collector), Costa, D. (Data Collector), Coosemans, T. (Supervisor) & Messagie, M. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 26 Mar 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10878143
Dataset
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Powering the Circular Future: Climate Change and Economic Perspectives on Second-Life Batteries in the Belgian Context - Supporting Information S2 and S3
Huber, D. (Creator), Van Den Oever, A. (Data Collector), Lavigne Philippot, M. (Data Collector), Costa, D. (Data Collector), Coosemans, T. (Supervisor) & Messagie, M. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 3 Jul 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13785670
Dataset