Emission Factor

Sand-lime brick (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for sand-lime brick. The reference product is sand-lime brick. The product "sand-lime brick" represents 1 kg of sand-lime brick produced from natural silica sand, milled quicklime, additives and water. Its production includes raw material provision, raw material mixing, forming by pressing, hardening by autoclave, packing, and storage. Sand-lime lightweight bricks are insulating bricks with a low apparent density (700 to 900 kg/m3). The most important use of sand-lime bricks in the building sector are: Masonry (supporting walls, parting wall, casing), fair-faced brickwork and Facing/Casing. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/2963/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSand-lime brick (market for)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryBuilding Materials
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
building_materials-type_sand_lime_brick_market_for_sand_lime_brick
UUID
2f0b1b05-67cb-427c-bef4-b08bdf541c0b
Code Snippet
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