With this project we helped Topsoe obtain consequential life cycle inventory datasets for a variety of chemical raw materials used in their products.
The project included a review of the LCI data currently available in the ecoinvent database for some of the target chemicals, and whenever necessary to develop alternative LCI datasets for these and for currently missing chemicals, mainly inorganic compounds containing base and precious metals. Datasets linking to the ecoinvent database were developed using a consequential modelling approach, based on a market analysis to identify marginal suppliers and based on the identification of determining products and dependent co-products in each unit process (mining, industrial processing).
Ivan is our branch manager of our Barcelona office. He started working in life cycle assessment in 1998 and got his Ph.D. in environmental science in 2006 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ivan's areas of expertise include LCAs for ecodesign, solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, agriculture and food production, including related tools like environmental risk assessment, life cycle costing and water footprinting. From 2009 to 2013 he worked in the UK for Unilever.
Contact for: LCA quality assurance and Waste and recycling
