Emission Factor

Precious metal refinery (precious metal refinery construction)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a precious metal refinery. The infrastructure represents a plant of 5,000 m2, equipped with 1 Electrolyte cell, 1 Eluation cell, 5 Electrowinning cell, 1 Calcination furnace, 1 Smelting furnace, 1 Electrorefining cell. It has a yearly capacity of anode slime treatment of 243 tons with an assumed lifetime assumed of 25 years. The process includes building materials and their decommission, and land use. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NamePrecious metal refinery (precious metal refinery construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.8
Region
Unit Type
Year
2000
Year Released
2021
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/number
LCA Activity
Refer to source
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR4, AR5
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 11Version log
  • Replaced by: 167d6025-dcde-4b7c-915a-4bb1989f8447

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_precious_metal_refinery_precious_metal_refinery_construction
UUID
24121763-de9e-4607-9267-c9fbe0d0407c_a56c49fd-0157-492e-ae84-5f0726c7058b
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