Silicon carbide, Metallurgical-grade SiC (88 wt%)

What it is

Unallocated foreground LCI of Silicon carbide by the Acheson process (5000 kg/h crude SiC, concept), case design, derived from the flowsheet by cheme assess lca.

Reference product

1 kilogram of Silicon carbide, Metallurgical-grade SiC (88 wt%) (1.01325 bar(a), 50 degC, 88 % SiC (mass))

Chemical

silicon-carbide

CAS

409-21-2

Code

silicon-carbide-1:silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept:product:MET

Dataset

silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept version 0.1.0 · UUID ea20b56e-bec0-5255-80c7-c0edc031fb2f

Activity UUID

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

Database

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

Process

Silicon carbide by the Acheson process (5000 kg/h crude SiC, concept)

Geography

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

Time period

2026 · valid until 2031

Technology

Acheson batch resistance furnaces (silica sand and green petroleum coke, graphite core), gas burn-off over the charge, ingot cooling, breaking and sorting with recycle of the unreacted mix, crushing and screening; 5000 kg/h crude SiC · level current

Boundary

gate-to-gate foreground of the plant

Production volume

40,000,000 kg/a (product:SIC per hour x operation.hours_per_year (8000 h/a))

Classification

ISIC Rev.4 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

shares, 20 % of the dataset to this product (rule deviation, from study)

Hierarchy step 3 (WBCSD price ratio) cannot be applied: no sourced prices of crude crystalline and metallurgical-grade SiC are recorded for this concept design. Mass is used because both co-products are mostly SiC (98 and 88 wt%) from the same batch; to be revisited with economic allocation once prices are sourced (D-010).

Rights

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

Exchanges per 1 kilogram of Silicon carbide, Metallurgical-grade SiC (88 wt%)

As exported: allocated and scaled to the reference product. Provenance: 11 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 Silicon carbide, Metallurgical-grade SiC (88 wt%), 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/silicon-carbide-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 silicon-carbide-1:silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept:product:MET
• cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348-olca-jsonld.zip · openLCA JSON-LD (olca-schema) (2) · the whole database
  process ea20b56e-bec0-5255-80c7-c0edc031fb2f (processes/ea20b56e-bec0-5255-80c7-c0edc031fb2f.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 silicon-carbide-1:silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept · 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", "silicon-carbide-1:silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept:product:MET"))

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

Silicon carbide, Metallurgical-grade SiC (88 wt%), from Silicon carbide by the Acheson process (5000 kg/h crude SiC, concept) (dataset silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept 0.1.0), ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database preview-c3ab348, activity silicon-carbide-1:silicon-carbide-by-the-acheson-process-5000-kg-h-crude-sic-concept:product:MET. 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}
}