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Basic oxygen furnace waste (market for basic oxygen furnace waste)

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Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'basic oxygen furnace waste' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in steel production and processing activities. 'basic oxygen furnace waste' contain the following fractions: mixture of 3 wastes from converter steel production: BOF slags desulphurisation slag and BOF dust. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'basic oxygen furnace waste' has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. 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 hazardous waste.  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 Waste. 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 treat it. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is -1.

Property	Value
Name	Basic oxygen furnace waste (market for basic oxygen furnace waste)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Product
Source	ecoinvent
Region	European Union (EU), Global (GLOBAL), India (IN), Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2010 2011
LCA Activity	Refer to source

Basic oxygen furnace waste (market for basic oxygen furnace waste)

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