Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Global

United States of America (the)

Blast furnace slag (market for blast furnace slag)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

Italy

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Taiwan (Province of China)

South Africa

Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Japan

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Türkiye

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'blast furnace slag' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in steelmaking process during the smelting process. 'blast furnace slag' contain the following fractions: blast furnace slag with a glass content of over 95%. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'blast furnace slag' has 0.5% water on wet mass basis (99.5% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (0.23% on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition.  In the ecoinvent database treatment option/s for this by-product include: deposition (residual material landfill). Based on the aforementioned treatments this by-product receives it is a non-hazardous waste.  In addition this by-product is used in the following processes: cement production alternative constituents 6-20%; granulated blast furnace slag production; ground granulated blast furnace slag production.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling.  The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. Product information for this product is available within the datasets that produce it. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Property	Value
Name	Blast furnace slag (market for blast furnace slag)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW), Global (GLOBAL), United States of America (the) (US)
Year	2010 2012
LCA Activity	cradle_to_consumer

Blast furnace slag (market for blast furnace slag)

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Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

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Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

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