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Clay pit infrastructure (clay pit construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is clay pit construction. The Reference Product is clay pit infrastructure. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a clay pit infrastructure. It is based on an operating plant with a yearly excavated amount of 100,000 tons. It has a lifetime of 50 years and a yearly production of 80,000,000 kg. The process includes constructed buildings and machineries, but excludes the land-use of the mining activities. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/8826/documentation

PropertyValue
NameClay pit infrastructure (clay pit construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
1992
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_clay_pit_infrastructure_clay_pit_construction
UUID
18183757-90a5-4545-8cb1-3d2a33894544
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