Ready-made composite LCA inventory development for high-volume production of a drone frame

Carbon fibre reinforced polymers in the form of prepregs, (thermosets and thermoplastics) and reinforced thermoplastic laminates (RTL), as important intermediate composite sheets, have been extensively used in the aerospace industry and particularly in manufacturing loadbearing structural parts, such as the drone airframe in Figure 1. Research Problem: The intermediate materials are often used for high volume production, but inventory data development for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is still challenging to acquire as background data is limited due to confidentiality issues with respect to the industry providing it, as depicted in Figure 2. Research Question: In the current scenario, how to develop a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) for intermediate thermoset and thermoplastics composite sheets?