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- description: Life cycle analysis (LCA) is an environmental assessment method that quantifies the environmental performance
of a product system over its entire lifetime, from cradle to grave. Based on a set of relevant metrics, the method is aptly
suited for comparing the environmental performance of competing products systems. This file contains LCA data and results
for electric power production including geothermal power. The LCA for electric power has been broken down into two life cycle
stages, namely plant and fuel cycles. Relevant metrics include the energy ratio and greenhouse gas (GHG) ratios, where the
former is the ratio of system input energy to total lifetime electrical energy out and the latter is the ratio of the sum
of all incurred greenhouse gases (in CO2 equivalents) divided by the same energy output. Specific information included herein
are material to power (MPR) ratios for a range of power technologies for conventional thermoelectric, renewables (including
three geothermal power technologies), and coproduced natural gas/geothermal power. For the geothermal power scenarios, the
MPRs include the casing, cement, diesel, and water requirements for drilling wells and topside piping. Also included herein
are energy and GHG ratios for plant and fuel cycle stages for the range of considered electricity generating technologies.
Some of this information are MPR data extracted directly from the literature or from models (eg. ICARUS - a subset of ASPEN
models) and others (energy and GHG ratios) are results calculated using GREET models and MPR data. MPR data for wells included
herein were based on the Argonne well materials model and GETEM well count results.; abstract: Life cycle analysis (LCA) is
an environmental assessment method that quantifies the environmental performance of a product system over its entire lifetime,
from cradle to grave. Based on a set of relevant metrics, the method is aptly suited for comparing the environmental performance
of competing products systems. This file contains LCA data and results for electric power production including geothermal
power. The LCA for electric power has been broken down into two life cycle stages, namely plant and fuel cycles. Relevant
metrics include the energy ratio and greenhouse gas (GHG) ratios, where the former is the ratio of system input energy to
total lifetime electrical energy out and the latter is the ratio of the sum of all incurred greenhouse gases (in CO2 equivalents)
divided by the same energy output. Specific information included herein are material to power (MPR) ratios for a range of
power technologies for conventional thermoelectric, renewables (including three geothermal power technologies), and coproduced
natural gas/geothermal power. For the geothermal power scenarios, the MPRs include the casing, cement, diesel, and water requirements
for drilling wells and topside piping. Also included herein are energy and GHG ratios for plant and fuel cycle stages for
the range of considered electricity generating technologies. Some of this information are MPR data extracted directly from
the literature or from models (eg. ICARUS - a subset of ASPEN models) and others (energy and GHG ratios) are results calculated
using GREET models and MPR data. MPR data for wells included herein were based on the Argonne well materials model and GETEM
well count results.
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- Title Life Cycle Analysis Data and Results for Geothermal and Other Electricity Generation Technologies.
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2018-02-23T08:38:32.730646
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