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Inverter - 2.5kW (inverter production)

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The activity generating the emissions is inverter production, 2.5kW. The reference product is inverter, 2.5kW. This is an infrastructure, representing the product of an inverter  that is used to convert direct current voltage to alternating current voltage in common appliances. It has a total mass about 18.5 kg and a capacity of 2.5kW. Its production represents all materials necessary to construct it, energy consumption during manufacturing, packaging and end-of-life.  The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7837/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is inverter production, 2.5kW. The reference product is inverter, 2.5kW. This is an infrastructure, representing the product of an inverter  that is used to convert direct current voltage to alternating current voltage in common appliances. It has a total mass about 18.5 kg and a capacity of 2.5kW. Its production represents all materials necessary to construct it, energy consumption during manufacturing, packaging and end-of-life.  The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/1713/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is consumer electronics production, mobile device, smartphone. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a smartphone. Data stem from a LCA study on the Fairphone 1, a mid-range smartphone from 2014 with 4.3 inch display and a total weight of 163.45g The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24984/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (consumer electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is market for consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a smartphone. Data stem from a LCA study on the Fairphone 1, a mid-range smartphone from 2014 with 4.3 inch display and a total weight of 163.45g The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24647/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is consumer electronics production, mobile device, tablet. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a tablet (approx. 10-inch). Data stem from a LCA study of a smartphone scaled to fit the composition and proportions of a tablet. The scaling was done with an average composition of tablets resulting in a weight of 519g per unit. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24691/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (consumer electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is market for consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a tablet (approx. 10-inch). Data stem from a LCA study of a smartphone scaled to fit the composition and proportions of a tablet. The scaling was done with an average composition of tablets resulting in a weight of 519g per unit. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24545/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is electronics production, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/1034/documentation.

Electronics - for control units (electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is electronics production, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4320/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is market for electronics, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5610/documentation.

Electronics - for control units (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for single-Si wafer, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5951/documentation.

Single-Si wafer - for electronics (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4194/documentation.

Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production)

The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/1787/documentation.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics and appliances rental. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Consumer electronics and appliances rental

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics and appliances rental. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.3.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics repair and maintenance. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Consumer electronics repair and maintenance

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics repair and maintenance. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.3.

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: electronics and appliances - retail margins. Retrieved from the OpenIO-Canada v2.9 model which is a Canadian Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) model. The emission factor is provided in purchaser price including taxes retail margins and distribution costs. Endogenization is included meaning the emission factor also accounts for capital goods.

Electronics and appliances - retail margins

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: electronics and appliances - retail margins. Retrieved from the OpenIO-Canada v2.9 model which is a Canadian Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) model. The emission factor is provided in purchaser price including taxes retail margins and distribution costs. Endogenization is not included meaning the emission factor does not account for capital goods.

Property	Value
Name	Inverter - 2.5kW (inverter production)
Sector	Equipment
Category	Electronics
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Europe (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_EUROPE), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Number
Year	2004
LCA Activity	unknown

Inverter - 2.5kW (inverter production)

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