Life cycle assessment of lithium carbonate production:
The results suggest that lithium carbonate production in the Thacker Pass project has higher impacts than the two other selected sedimentary projects. Additionally, the impact categories
Life cycle impacts of lithium carbonate from brines are underestimated in the literature. Our global, regionalized life cycle inventory model demonstrates increasing impacts due to technology choices and lower brine quality in the future.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of lithium carbonate production from conventional resources (i.e., brine and pegmatite) have been conducted over the past decades and have reached various results as summarised in Table 1.
Flexer, V.; Baspineiro, C. F.; Galli, C. I. Lithium recovery from brines: A vital raw material for green energies with a potential environmental impact in its mining and processing. Sci. Total Environ. 2018, 639, 1188– 1204, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.223
Those results highlight that the effect of concentrated lithium brine allocation approach does not yield significant variance in the battery's GHG emissions, but that brine-sourced lithium yields NMC622 batteries with 20% lower emissions and NMC811 batteries with 10% lower emissions than ore-sourced lithium.
The results suggest that lithium carbonate production in the Thacker Pass project has higher impacts than the two other selected sedimentary projects. Additionally, the impact categories
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Synopsis Life cycle impacts of lithium carbonate from brines are underestimated in the literature. Our global, regionalized life cycle inventory model demonstrates increasing impacts due to
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