I'm trying to look into the water footprint of various construction materials. Does anyone have data on the embodied water of pulverised fuel ash? I have data for cement which gives inputs of ground water, surface water, river water, sea water and "water", plus outputs of water vapour. This sort of breakdown would be good, but anything would be a start.
Ecoinvent is the largest transparent life cycle inventory database and in version 3 also has water flows (inputs and outputs) to assess water conusmption. keep in mind that for a proper water footprint (there is a new ISO norm accepted and available as draft ISO 14046) you need to perform impact assessment on water consumption and emissions affecting water resources. to do so you can use spatial explcit models such as those for impact assessment we published (freely available as google earth layer on http://www.ifu.ethz.ch/ESD/downloads/Monthly_WSI or online on http://waterfootprinting.jimdo.com/)
Additional information and references are available there.
Best,
Stephan
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Ecoinvent is the largest transparent life cycle inventory database and in version 3 also has water flows (inputs and outputs) to assess water conusmption. keep in mind that for a proper water footprint (there is a new ISO norm accepted and available as draft ISO 14046) you need to perform impact assessment on water consumption and emissions affecting water resources. to do so you can use spatial explcit models such as those for impact assessment we published (freely available as google earth layer on http://www.ifu.ethz.ch/ESD/downloads/Monthly_WSI or online on http://waterfootprinting.jimdo.com/)
Additional information and references are available there.
Best,
Stephan
Dear Leon,
Have a look on this paper:
"Impact of fly ash content and fly ash transportation distance on embodied greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption in concrete"
by O'Brien, KR; Menache, J; O'Moore, LM
Hope this can help you in the information you are looking for.
Best regards,
Julio
Thanks Julio. I'd read that article a couple of years ago, but had forgotten about the water footprinting aspects of it.
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