Emission Factor

Sugar beet pulp (ethanol production from sugar beet)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is ethanol production from sugar beet. The reference product is sugar beet pulp. The product sugar beet pulp is a processed agricultural product. The multioutput-process sugar beet, in sugar refinery delivers the co-products sugar, from sugar beet, at sugar refinery and molasses, from sugar beet, at sugar refinery and pulps, from sugar beet, at sugar refinery. Sweet juice is extracted from the sugar beets by diffusion. The juice is then purified and crystallized to sugar. Molasses come as a by-product of the crystallization process. 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/4803/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSugar beet pulp (ethanol production from sugar beet)
SectorEnergy
CategoryFuel
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2000
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
fuel-type_ethanol_production_from_sugar_beet-fuel_use_sugar_beet_pulp_ethanol_production_from_sugar_beet
UUID
09cc06cf-c529-4a74-ba86-bfad06404862
Code Snippet
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