Blowing agent, chemical + foam reticulating

3.2

Description

Polymer foaming process and foam reticulating process. Includes auxiliaries, energy, and blowing agents. The foam reticulating process represents further treatment of foams, to reach a fluid, air and gas permeability. A mixture of gaseous, flammable substances (e.g. oxyhydrogen) is brought to ignition with an ignition impulse within a reactor. An exothermic reaction through the explosive released reaction heat is being induced, which causes the perforation of the foam cell walls and their aimed sintering to a web thickness of the structural substance of the foam. Density of foam is 30 kg/m3. There is no loss associated with foam reticulating. This process represents and industry average of foaming processses used plus a foam reticulating process.

Impacts

Impact area MSI Score
Global Warming 0.9
Eutrophication 1.6
Water Scarcity 8.7e-2
Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels 0.7
Chemistry
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Modeling Notes

Polymer foaming {GLO}| market for | Alloc Def, S for blowing agent. Foam reticulating process based on member input and background data for electricity from ecoinvent.

Meta information

  • Primary Source: ecoinvent 3.4
  • Last Publication or Review date: 2011
  • Geography: Global/generic
  • Data Generator: [no data]

Data quality

Data Quality Value Description
Precision Fair 20% to 30% 3
Time Representativeness Good Data are not older than 6 years with respect to the release date or latest review date 2
Geographical Representativeness Fair The processes included in the dataset are sufficiently representative for the geography stated in the title and metadata 3
Technological Representativeness Fair The technologies modeled are representative of the average technology used for similar processes 3
Average 2.75