Switzerland

Europe without Switzerland

Rest-of-World

Fly ash and scrubber sludge (market for fly ash and scrubber sludge)

Albania

Austria

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

Quebec, CA

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Ireland

India

Iceland

Italy

Japan

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

Kosovo

Municipal solid waste (market for municipal solid waste)

Brazil

Colombia

Peru

South Africa

Waste glass (market for waste glass)

Waste graphical paper (market for waste graphical paper)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'fly ash and scrubber sludge' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in a wide range of activities in electricity and heat production and metals processing. 'fly ash and scrubber sludge' contain the following fractions: 100% separator sludge. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'fly ash and scrubber sludge' has 90% water on wet mass basis (10% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (16.7% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 0.9 MJ/kg. 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: thermal (hazardous waste incineration). 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.

Property	Value
Name	Fly ash and scrubber sludge (market for fly ash and scrubber sludge)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Product
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Switzerland (CH), Europe without Switzerland (EU_EXP_CH), Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2011
LCA Activity	unknown

Fly ash and scrubber sludge (market for fly ash and scrubber sludge)

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