Developing a Battery Impact Calculator ‘MineBIT’ to deeply decarbonise battery products required for low carbon economies.

向低碳经济的转型正在顺利进行并加速。然而，低排放能源和运输系统，如电动汽车（EV）或太阳能电池板，与化石燃料相比，矿物密集度更高。因此，预计到2050年，锂、钴、石墨和铟的矿物开采量将分别增加965%、585%、383%和241%[世界银行，2019年]，从而增加相关的环境压力。例如，汽车制造商（如组装电动汽车的原始设备制造商）需要能够了解其供应链的环境绩效，以确保他们建立的技术不会被矿场的不良环境绩效所抵消。为了生产可持续的低影响产品，他们还需要优化制造工艺，化学品选择和使用循环经济原则进行生产（当产品达到使用寿命时，实现高等级回收），同时仍能生产一流的，生命周期评估（LCA）提供了一种系统地衡量供应链影响和动态重新设计电池成分的方法（又称低影响和高性能化学品），同时应对商品市场的变化，以减少项目的碳足迹。然而，生命周期评估需要出色的数据，以准确量化每个矿场对原材料提取、加工和精炼的不同影响。然而，采矿界为LCA建立的数据集往往很少/不存在，破坏了它们的完整性。Minviro Ltd** 是一家英国中小企业，开创了世界领先的LCA工具，使矿产价值链能够从根本上改善其环境认证。该公司是世界一流的Camborne矿业学院的衍生公司，由矿物学家，采矿工程师和LCA专家组成，目前正在与世界上一些最大的多元化采矿公司和下游终端用户合作，以确保用于低碳经济的原材料以最小的环境成本采购。Minviro的战略研究合作伙伴，来自沃里克大学WMG的 ** 可持续材料和制造集团，是动态供应链建模、可持续材料/制造系统、数字生命周期管理、电池系统工程、新产品开发、这种专家的融合将把令人惊叹的英国科学转化为世界领先的创新，建立新颖的和可许可的电池影响计算器“MineBIT”，以数据驱动（同行评审）和时间LCA为基础。这一高度新颖的“现成”工具将完全符合国际标准ISO 14040和ISO 14044，并使全球供应链（包括OEM、一级和二级供应商和投资者）中的非LCA专家能够以最小的环境成本采购化学品并动态构建产品。

The transition to a low-carbon economy is well underway and accelerating. However, low-emission energy and transportation systems, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) or solar panels, are more mineral-intensive compared to fossil fuel equivalents. As such, mineral extraction is projected to rise by 965% for lithium, 585% for cobalt, 383% for graphite and 241% for indium by 2050 \[World Bank, 2019\] increasing associated environmental stresses.To deeply decarbonise supply-chains, downstream users of minerals (such as OEMs assembling EVs), need to be able to understand the environmental performance of their supply chains to ensure the technologies they build are not offset by poor environmental performance at mine-sites. To build sustainable, low-impact products, they also need to optimise manufacturing processes, chemical selection and build using circular economy principles (enabling high-grade recycling when products reach end-of-life) whilst still producing premier, competitive battery products.Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a method to systematically measure impacts of supply chains and dynamically redesign battery compositions (aka low impact _and_ high-performing chemicals) whilst responding to shifts in commodity markets to reduce the carbon footprint of projects. Yet LCA requires excellent data to accurately quantify different impacts for raw material extraction, processing and refining at a mine-site by mine-site level. However, datasets built by the mining community to feed into LCA are often meagre/non-existent undermining their integrity.**Minviro Ltd** is a UK SME pioneering world-leading LCA tools to enable the mineral value-chain to radically improve their environmental credentials. The company is a spin-out from the world-class Camborne School of Mines, comprising of mineralogists, mining-engineers and LCA specialists and is currently working with some of the largest diversified mining companies in the world and downstream end-users to ensure raw materials used for the low-carbon economy are sourced at minimal environmental cost.Minviro's strategic research partner, from the **Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Group at WMG, University of Warwick**, are specialists in modelling dynamic supply-chains; sustainable materials/manufacturing systems; digital lifecycle management; battery system engineering; new product development; and advanced propulsion systems.This fusion of experts, will translate amazing British science into a world-beating innovation, building novel and licensable battery impact calculator 'MineBIT', underpinned by data-driven (peer-reviewed) and temporal LCA. This highly novel 'off-the-shelf' tool will fully comply with international standards ISO14040 and ISO14044 and enable non LCA experts across global supply-chains (including OEM's, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers and investors) to source chemicals and dynamically build products with minimal environmental cost.