Emission Factor

Aluminium - primary - liquid (aluminium production - prebake)

Interested in licensing this data?

Request a quote

Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is aluminium production, primary, liquid, prebake. The reference product is aluminium, primary, liquid. Aluminium, primary, liquid is a metal. It is soft, non-magnetic and ductile with silvery gray metallic appearance while it is a post-transition metal. It is the direct product from the Hall-Héroult process. It is in liquid hot metal form. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: transported to an ingot casting facility to be further processed. 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/23215/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameAluminium - primary - liquid (aluminium production - prebake)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2015
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_aluminium_primary_liquid_aluminium_production_primary_liquid_prebake
UUID
12f46459-64fb-4779-a3ac-4e8312319fa9
Code Snippet
View API Docs

Automate emission calculations with Climatiq

Related factors

ecoinvent Emission Factors

Explore All

Metals Emission Factors

Explore All