Phenol product

What it is

Unallocated foreground LCI of Phenol and acetone from cumene (cumene hydroperoxide route), case design, derived from the flowsheet by cheme assess lca.

Reference product

1 kilogram of Phenol product (3 bar(a), 60 degC, 100 % PHEN (mass))

Chemical

phenol

CAS

108-95-2

Code

acetone-1:phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route:product:PHENOL

Dataset

phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route version 0.1.0 · UUID 221769aa-2c36-516c-b750-55e928d8a00f

Activity UUID

not available (the library assigns none; use the code)

Database

cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348 (version preview-c3ab348)

Process

Acetone and phenol from cumene (cumene hydroperoxide route, 200 kt/a phenol)

Geography

GLO · background inputs with a site rule link at the user's site location (default DE)

Time period

2026 · valid until 2031

Technology

cumene air oxidation (dry, 500 kPa(a)), vacuum CHP concentration to 80 wt%, sulfuric acid cleavage, caustic neutralisation, four-column fractionation, AMS hydrogenation to cumene; 200 kt/a phenol, 126 kt/a acetone, concept design · level current

Boundary

gate-to-gate foreground of the plant

Production volume

125,740,320 kg/a (product:ACETONE per hour x operation.hours_per_year (8000 h/a))

Classification

ISIC Rev.4 1920, 2011 (taxonomy/families.yaml (ISIC Rev.4) of the process's families)

System model

attributional, cut-off (docs/system-model.md, methodology 1.1.0)

Allocation

mass, 61.4 % of the dataset to this product (rule deviation, from study)

Economic allocation (common for this co-product pair) is not applied: no prices at the concept stage. System expansion is not applied: neither product is made by an alternative route at scale that could be credited without its own study (phenol without acetone has no commercial route in Europe, LVOC 8.2.1).

Rights

CC-BY-4.0: the ChemE-as-Code process library's own concept design (LICENSE-DATA)

Exchanges per 1 kilogram of Phenol product

As exported: allocated and scaled to the reference product. Provenance: 13 assumed. Pedigree scores (1 best, 5 worst): reliability, completeness, temporal correlation, geographical correlation, further technological correlation.

Elementary flows

The streams are the plant's own flows: an amount here is allocated and per 1 kilogram of Phenol product, so it differs from the stream's flow, and it can sum several streams.

Where these numbers come from: each exchange names its source above; the dataset is processes/acetone-1/lca/dataset.yaml in library version c3ab348.

Used by

No other activity of this database links to it.

How good it is

Review

Not reviewed: no LCI review record yet

Data quality

DQR 2.33 · PEF-style DQR 2.75

TeR 3 · GeR 3 · TiR 1 · P 4 · C 4 · weakest TeR · primary data 0 %

Mass and carbon closure

Assessed (lca/manifest.json balance, tolerance 5 %: design maturity concept (sourced screening))

• lci-carbon-origin: closed
• lci-element-balance: closed
• lci-mass-balance: closed

Change report

Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.

KPI benchmark positions

Not available: no benchmarked KPI for this dataset.

How to use it

Downloads

• cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348.xlsx · bw2io ExcelImporter workbook (bw2io 0.9 Excel layout) · the whole database
  code acetone-1:phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route:product:PHENOL
• cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348-olca-jsonld.zip · openLCA JSON-LD (olca-schema) (2) · the whole database
  process 221769aa-2c36-516c-b750-55e928d8a00f (processes/221769aa-2c36-516c-b750-55e928d8a00f.json) · the dataset's unallocated multi-output process; this product's allocation factor is in it
• cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348-multifunctional.json · Brightway 2.5 multifunctional database (JSON, for the multifunctional package) (cheme-as-code/lci-multifunctional/v1) · the whole database
  code acetone-1:phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route · the dataset unallocated, with all its products; this product is its desired_code
• cheme_as_code_lci-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl · the installer

A file with this activity alone is not available: each file above is the whole database, and the line under it says how to find this activity there.

import bw2data as bd
from cheme_as_code_lci import install

bd.projects.set_current("my-project")   # holds your licensed background + biosphere3
install("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348.xlsx", background="ecoinvent-3.11-cutoff", location="DE")
activity = bd.get_activity(("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348", "acetone-1:phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route:product:PHENOL"))

While any exchange of the database has no mapping, install() writes nothing and only lists the unlinked exchanges. So the last line finds no activity until the gaps are mapped: the download section gives the ways to use the database now.

How to cite

Phenol product, from Acetone and phenol from cumene (cumene hydroperoxide route, 200 kt/a phenol) (dataset phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route 0.1.0), ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database preview-c3ab348, activity acetone-1:phenol-and-acetone-from-cumene-cumene-hydroperoxide-route:product:PHENOL. Cite the Process Atlas paper (in preparation, 2026), by Artur M. Schweidtmann and Jana M. Weber, and the ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database version preview-c3ab348.

DOI: none yet (the Process Atlas paper is in preparation)

@unpublished{schweidtmann_process_atlas,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M. and Weber, Jana M.},
  title = {{Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title)}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://atlas.cheme-as-code.org},
  note = {in preparation}
}

@unpublished{schweidtmann_cheme_as_code,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M.},
  title = {{ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for AI-Accelerated Chemical Process Engineering (working title)}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://cheme-as-code.org},
  note = {in preparation}
}