| Key Data Set Information | |
| Location | MY |
| Geographical representativeness description | The data set represents the country specific situation in Malaysia, focusing on the main technologies, the region specific characteristics and / or import statistics. |
| Reference year | 2013 |
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; Quantitative product or process properties
Aluminium secondary; rotary furnace and reverbatory furnace, from aluminium scrap; single route, at plant; 2.7 g/cm3, 26.98 g/mol
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| Use advice for data set | The data set represents a cradle to gate inventory for secondary aluminium. It does not represent the typical consumer mix of aluminum ingots in Malaysia due to fact that also primary aluminum is imported. Considering the used technologies in this data set the environmental profile is applicable but with the background of the consumer market and to achieve decisions it should be treated with care because the imported primary aluminum would have a much higher environmental impact and might change the decision process. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | Provision of secondary aluminium ingots for sheet or profile making or other applications. |
| Synonyms | CAS 7429-90-5 |
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| General comment on data set | For each material or good with domestic production a regionalized LCI data set was established using Malaysian specific energy supply chains and if possible also Malaysian specific preliminary products. The regionalisation was conducted based on the product systems in the GaBi 6.4 data base. Most of these product systems for materials/goods have German, European or Global boundary conditions. Energy: All energy data sets with exception of the compressed air processes (unit processes) are modelled with Malaysian boundary conditions. Fuel mixes (import and domestic production) are modelled according to statistical data and specific emission data for the relevant production countries and transportation routes. Inorganic and organic chemicals: For all inorganic and organic chemicals the assumption was made that thermal energy and steam is generated from natural gas. Minerals: According to the Malaysian Mineral Yearbook close to 100% of the Gypsum is imported from Thailand and Barite is imported from Thailand and China. These data sets were regionalized with Thai or Chinese energy data sets. Construction materials: The energy carriers used for the production of cement, calcium oxide or particles board varies a lot depending on county and region. For the cement production and lime (calcium oxide) production 95% coal use and 5% use of palm kernel shell (PKS) will be assumed based on several publications. The use of old tyres was neglected. For the production of particle boards or plywood energy supply (power and thermal energy) by biomass was assumed. Metals: The regionalization was done based on the experts at SIRIM and several publications as well as an extended internet research. For the metals gold, zinc, ferro chrome, ferro nickel and primary lead 100% or close to 100% import was found. A real regionalization (production in Malaysia) was not done for these metals, instead an import based on global production and the transport to Malaysia was modelled, resulting in so called consumption mixes. A copper matte process (100% import), a regionalized copper process based on imported copper matte and an additional global copper mix process were generated. Primary aluminium is not produced in Malaysia. The aluminium sheet and profile processes are based on a global primary aluminium mix, the extrusion process and the sheet making processes are regionalized. |
| Copyright | Yes |
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| Data set valid until | 2018 |
| Time representativeness description | Annual average |
| Technological representativeness | |
| Technology description including background system | Foreground system: The production of secondary aluminium is done based on aluminium scrap in ratory and reverbatory furnaces. A share of 64% ratory furnace and 36% reverbatory furnace was adjusted based on European data. Malaysian specific data about aluminium recycling was not available. For moree information see the EAA environmental profile report. Background system: Electricity: Electricity is modelled according to the individual country-specific situations. The country-specific modelling is achieved on multiple levels. Firstly, individual energy carrier specific power plants and plants for renewable energy sources are modelled according to the current national electricity grid mix. Modelling the electricity consumption mix includes transmission / distribution losses and the own use by energy producers (own consumption of power plants and "other" own consumption e.g. due to pumped storage hydro power etc.), as well as imported electricity. Secondly, the national emission and efficiency standards of the power plants are modelled as well as the share of electricity plants and combined heat and power plants (CHP). Thirdly, the country-specific energy carrier supply (share of imports and / or domestic supply) including the country-specific energy carrier properties (e.g. element and energy content) are accounted for. Fourthly, the exploration, mining/production, processing and transport processes of the energy carrier supply chains are modelled according to the specific situation of each electricity producing country. The different production and processing techniques (emissions and efficiencies) in the different energy producing countries are considered, e.g. different crude oil production technologies or different flaring rates at the oil platforms. Thermal energy, process steam: The thermal energy and process steam supply is modelled according to the individual country-specific situation with regard to emission standards and considered energy carriers. The thermal energy and process steam are produced at heat plants. Efficiencies for thermal energy production are by definition 100% in relation to the corresponding energy carrier input. For process steam the efficiency ranges from 85%, 90% to 95%. The energy carriers used for the generation of thermal energy and process steam are modelled according to the specific import situation (see electricity above). Transports: All relevant and known transport processes are included. Ocean-going and inland ship transport as well as rail, truck and pipeline transport of bulk commodities are considered. Energy carriers: The energy carriers are modelled according to the specific supply situation (see electricity above). Refinery products: Diesel fuel, gasoline, technical gases, fuel oils, lubricants and residues such as bitumen are modelled with a parameterised country-specific refinery model. The refinery model represents the current national standard in refining techniques (e.g. emission level, internal energy consumption, etc.) as well as the individual country-specific product output spectrum, which can be quite different from country to country. The supply of crude oil is modelled, again, according to the country-specific situation with the respective properties of the resources. |
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| Type of data set | Partly terminated system | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LCI Method Principle | Attributional | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deviation from LCI method principle / explanations | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Deviations from LCI method approaches / explanations | Foreground system: For the foreground system, no allocation was applied. Background system: For the combined heat and power production, allocation by exergetic content is applied. For the electricity generation and by-products, e.g. gypsum, allocation by market value is applied due to no common physical properties. Within the refinery allocation by net calorific value and mass is used. For the combined crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids production allocation by net calorific value is applied. For details please see the document "GaBi Databases Modelling Principles " | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Modelling constants | All data used in the calculation of the LCI results refer to net calorific value. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deviation from modelling constants / explanations | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data cut-off and completeness principles | Cut-off rules for each unit process: Coverage of at least 95 % of mass and energy of the input and output flows, and 98 % of their environmental relevance (according to expert judgement). For further details please see the document "GaBi Databases Modelling Principles" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deviation from data cut-off and completeness principles / explanations | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data selection and combination principles | The data sources for the complete product system are sufficiently constant. Data for energy, intermediates and auxiliary consumption are based on measured operating data from literature and other literature data. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deviation from data selection and combination principles / explanations | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data treatment and extrapolations principles | Malaysian conditions for power and thermal energy supply were used based on statistics and technology specific data to represent the specific country conditions. Consumption data (energy and materials) of the production mixes are based on technology specific documents representing a global average or European conditions. For the production of intermediates the same principles were applied. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deviation from data treatment and extrapolations principles / explanations | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Percentage supply or production covered | 100.0 % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Uncertainty adjustments | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Completeness of product model | All relevant flows quantified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Intended applications | This background data set can be used for the generation of user-specific (product) LCAs. |
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| Time stamp (last saved) | 2015-03-01T07:00:00+08:00 |
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| Publication and ownership | |
| UUID | 53a8f07f-001c-4760-bdd6-b8c96e5e4f34 |
| Date of last revision | 2015-03-01T07:00:00+08:00 |
| Data set version | 09.00.000 |
| Workflow and publication status | Data set finalised; entirely published |
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| Copyright | Yes |
| License type | Other |
| Access and use restrictions | The data set can be used free of charge by anybody to perform LCA studies, to distribute it to third parties, to convert it to other formats, to develop own data sets etc. as long as the copyright and license conditions for the data sets of the Malaysian Life Cycle Inventory Database and the ILCD format are met that can be accessed via http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu. Please note e.g. that reference must be given to the 'Owner of data set' and to the 'Malaysian Life Cycle Inventory Database' plus version number, when using the data set or parts thereof. Please note also, that any modifications/omissions of the data set results in invalidity of any existing 'Official approval of data set by producer/operator', that the impression must be avoided that this would still be a complete data set of the Malaysian Life Cycle Inventory Database, and that the content of further fields has to be adjusted. For details see the aforementioned copyright and license conditions. |