Methodology for PCF Calculations of Lubricants, Greases and other Specialties
The following activities shall be included in cradle-to-lubricant manufacturer's outbound gate PCF calculation:
• Upstream-emissions of production-related raw materials including small contributors by mass if their specific carbon footprint is high, e.g. catalysts containing precious metals like platinum as described in the cut-off Section 3.2.
• Direct and indirect GHG emissions related to the product’s production processes and utilities such as fuel and energy consumption (such as, but not limited to electricity, external heat, steam, natural gas, biomethane and oil) shall be included. This also includes upstream GHG emissions resulting from the generation of electricity, steam, heating and cooling by the energy provider.
• Moreover, other utilities such as process water, excess steam, cooling water, demineralizedwater, or inert gases shall be included, as well as the production losses, treatment of waste and wastewater.
Also, upstream transportation shall be taken into account which consists of the upstream transportation up to the lubricant manufacturer gate, as well as inbound transportation within the lubricant manufacturer (site-to-site transportation/(inbound)- gate-to-(outbound)-gate). Similar to upstream transportation, upstream packaging shall be included, which takes the inbound packaging up to the lubricant manufacturer gate. Note that depending on the cut-off criteria the cut-off can still be applied to the included parts of the system boundary.
The PCF calculations shall exclude activities as described in Table 1. The reasons for the exclusion of activities are described in the following:
• Services such as engineering or infrastructure services and R&D activities, as well as the production of investment goods, business travel and employee commuting shall be excluded from the system boundaries of PCF calculations because these activities are not directly linked to the production activities of the respective lubricant or other speciality.
• Downstream transportation, outside the lubricant manufacturer, as well as downstream packaging shall be excluded from the PCF calculation. Downstream transportation is not considered, because the lubricant manufacturer delivers its products to different customers in different locations. This would lead to the contradiction of transparency aspects defined in the goal of this methodology. The same reasoning applies to the exclusion of downstream packaging. The lubricant manufacturer delivers products in different packaging sizes or bulk, resulting in a lack of transparency and comparability. Thus, it is recommended to calculate downstreampackaging and downstream transportation depending on the customer requests of the lubricant manufacturer and report it separately.
Although this methodology describes the PCF calculation of an unpacked product at the manufacturer's outbound gate, users of this methodology can expand on this methodology and, outside this methodology, calculate the PCF of a packed and even delivered product.
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