Energy Guide

CORIAN
®
SOLID
SURFACE
According to ISO 14025
Energy Consumption
Table 6: Corian
®
energy consumption results per functional unit
Units
Materials
acquisition
Construction Installation Use & maint. End-of-life Total
Non-renewable
Fossil-fuel based MJ 1.30E+03 1.86E+02 1.61E+02 6.86E+00 2.09E+01
1.68E+03
Nuclear MJ 3.91E+01 4.13E+01 1.11E+01 2.05E-01 1.09E+00
9.28E+01
Renewable
Solar MJ 1.74E+01 4.67E+00 6.50E+00 4.25E-02 7.80E-01
2.94E+01
Wind MJ 9.37E+00 2.45E+00 1.79E+00 3.73E-02 2.45E-01
1.39E+01
Hydro MJ 7.15E+00 9.26E+00 2.05E+00 3.77E-02 2.27E-01
1.87E+01
Biomass MJ - 1.88E+01 - - -
1.88E+01
Geothermal MJ 8.21E-01 1.55E-02 3.93E-01 6.72E-03 2.98E-02
1.27E+00
Impact Assessment
Impact assessment results are listed in Table 7. Acidification potential (AP), photochemical ozone creation potential
(POCP), eutrophication potential (EP), and ozone depletion potential (POCP) results were calculated using the TRACI
2.1 methodology. Global warming potential (GWP) results were calculated based on the 5
th
assessment report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and abiotic depletion potential (ADP) results are based on CML
2001 (v4.7, January 2016).
Table 7: Corian
®
impact assessment results per functional unit
Units
Materials
acquisition
Construction Installation Use & maint. End-of-life Total
GWP kg CO
2
eq. 6.08E+01 1.42E+01 1.24E+01 2.96E-01 6.46E+00
9.42E+01
AP kg SO
2
eq. 2.08E-01 3.52E-02 4.12E-02 5.37E-04 1.19E-02
2.97E-01
POCP kg O
3
eq. 2.70E+00 1.00E+00 9.50E-01 9.41E-03 1.34E-01
4.79E+00
EP kg N eq. 1.11E-02 7.72E-03 3.82E-03 4.46E-05 1.50E-03
2.42E-02
ODP kg R11 eq. 3.56E-09 4.90E-09 1.32E-09 2.28E-11 1.05E-10
9.90E-09
ADP, elements kg Sb eq. 5.62E-05 5.24E-06 2.73E-06 3.70E-07 5.27E-07
6.51E-05
ADP, fossil MJ 1.30E+03 1.86E+02 1.61E+02 6.86E+00 2.09E+01
1.68E+03