I could not find suitable data for LCA modelling. I am looking for some data like input and output information about COD, BOD, SS, TN, TP, energy consumption, chemical additives (PAC, Urea, NaOH,...), land use information, some emissions, and other special data on different treatment methods.
like this below table:
Good afternoon.
This is a common problem in wastewater treatment impact assessment. To the best of my knowledge I have not found a database for wastewater treatment specific of the petrochemical industry.
If you don't expect wastewater treatment to have a significant contribution to the life cycle of your product/service/good, you can use a proxy database as a simplification approach to fill the data gap.
I like the approach of Fernández-daCosta et. al (2018) Article Closing carbon cycles: Evaluating the performance of multi-p...
:"Due to absence of data for treatment of wastewater as an effluent of the processes in question, the impacts of wastewater are assumed to be those
of wastewater as an effluent of soft fireboard production. This process was chosen as it has the median impacts out of a group of class 3, industrial
wastewater treatment processes in the Ecoinvent database"
This can help avoiding an under-estimation of the total life cycle impacts while being not too conservative.
Kind regards,
Gustavo Rangel
@gustavo
Thank you for your helpful response
I caught some ideas for solving my problem.
This was a professional help!