Conference Agenda

Session
Session 2.23: Filling the Gaps in Life Cycle Assessments of Upstream Materials for the Sustainable Deployment of Battery Ecosystems
Time:
Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Sophia Roy, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Session Chair: Luka Smajila, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Presentations
(15 minutes)

A framework for prospective life cycle assessment of upstream material supply chains

Sophia Roy1, Ketan Vaidya2, Louis Fradette1

1Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; 2Northvolt AB, Sweden


(15 minutes)

Reducing environmental impacts and material footprint of Li-ion battery production for electric vehicles and their recycling: a cradle-to-cradle life cycle analysis and circularity assessment

Jordy Motte1, Laura Vittoria De Luca Pena1, Ligia Da Silva Lima1, Michael Hofmann2, Ksenia Astafyeva3, Kawther Thabet3, Razieh Sarani2, Constantin Hübner4, Stefan Eisert4, Uwe Guntow2, Jo Dewulf1

1Ghent University, Belgium; 2Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC; 3Hutchinson SA Research & Innovation Center; 4ImpulsTec


(15 minutes)

Using LCA in technology development – the case of structural battery cell technology

Natalia Sieti1, Ruben Tavano2, Richa Chaudhary3, Johanna Xu4, Leif E. Asp5, Magdalena Svanström6

1Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Division of Environmental Systems Analysis; 2Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Division of Material and Computational Mechanics; 3Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Division of Material and Computational Mechanics; 4Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Division of Material and Computational Mechanics; 5Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Division of Material and Computational Mechanics; 6Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden -Division of Environmental Systems Analysis


(15 minutes)

Life Cycle Assessment of a battery Container Storage System based on Sodium-ion and Lithium-ion Batteries

Friedrich Jasper1, Manuel Baumann1, Marcel Weil1,2

1ITAS, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2HIU, Helmholtz-Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage, KIT, Ulm, Germany


(Short Oral + Poster)

Filling the gaps by the development of a life cycle inventory database for electromobility battery recycling processes and recycled materials

Emilie Guilvert, Noura Rahbani, Perrine Sebastien, Naeem Adibi

WeLOOP, France


(Short Oral + Poster)

Enhancing battery LCA data: addressing critical gaps and enabling consistent analyses

Antonio Valente, Iasonas Ioannou, Valeria Superti, Lauriane Bichot, Thomas Sonderegger

ecoinvent, Switzerland


(6 minutes)

Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Battery Technologies and Recycling Pathways

Daniel Habermeier, Levin Winzinger, Abhishek Khairnar, Dr. Denise Ott

EurA AG, Germany


(Short Oral + Poster)

Life Cycle Assessment of Li-ion Batteries (LIBs) for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs): From Production through Usage to Recycling

Inyoung Ko, Wonjae Choi

Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea


(6 minutes)

Integrated Framework for Electric Vehicle Battery Sustainability: Combining Life Cycle Assessment and Circular Economy

Anna Sánchez, Gabriela Benveniste, Isabella Bulfaro, Mikel Fadul, Víctor José Ferreira

FUNDACIO INSTITUT RECERCA ENERGIA CATALUNYA (IREC), Spain