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Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Data-Treatment Chemicals, Construction Materials, Transportation, On-site Equipment, and Other Processes for Use in Spreadsheets for Environmental Footprint Analysis (SEFA)
Citation:
Randall, P., D. Meyer, W. Ingwersen, D. Vineyard, M. Bergmann, S. Unger, AND M. Gonzalez. Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Data-Treatment Chemicals, Construction Materials, Transportation, On-site Equipment, and Other Processes for Use in Spreadsheets for Environmental Footprint Analysis (SEFA). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-16/176, 2016.
Impact/Purpose:
Since the USEPA launched its green remediation program, metrics such as impacts, outcomes, and environmental burdens of remediation actions have been difficult to assess. This research includes metrics to quantify RCRA and CERCLA remediation actions. Metrics include: greenhouse gases, energy demand, water use, SOX, NOX, PM10, and hazardous air pollutants. The primary user of this project is EPA's Region 9 Superfund and Technology Office for input into the SEFA tool. SEFA is a set of analytical workbooks used to quantify the environmental footprint of a site cleanup in order to achieve a greener cleanup. SEFA permits users to enter actual or anticipated data on site remediation activities and from that estimate life cycle energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, criteria air pollutants, and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). SEFA associates activities described by the user with pre-calculated emission factors for these activities. The use of SEFA will determine how green associated activities are for contaminated site cleanups.
Description:
This report estimates environmental emission factors (EmF) for key chemicals, construction and treatment materials, transportation/on-site equipment, and other processes used at remediation sites. The basis for chemical, construction, and treatment material EmFs is life cycle inventory (LCI) data extracted from secondary data sources and compiled using the openLCA software package. The US EPA MOVES 2014 model was used to derive EmFs from combustion profiles for a number of transportation and on-site equipment processes. The EmFs were calculated for use in US EPA’s Spreadsheets for Environmental Footprint Analysis (SEFA). EmFs are reported for cumulative energy demand (CED), global warming potential (GWP), criteria pollutants (e.g. NOX, SOX, and PM10), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), and water use.
URLs/Downloads:
FINAL EPA 2016 SEFA REPORT.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 1594.068 KB, about PDF)www.epa.gov/research