Emission Factor

Used nitrate salts - for solar power application (thermal storage system construction - solar thermal parabolic trough - 50 MW)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is thermal storage system construction, solar thermal parabolic trough, 50 MW. The reference product is used nitrate salts, for solar power application. Used nitrate salts, for solar power application is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : . It is called sodium nitrate, technical grade and potassium nitrate, technical grade to nitrate salts, for solar power application under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: NaNO3 and KNO3 (commonly 60% : 40%) for reuse. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a mixture of 98% pure substances. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on industrial sites. 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/20909/documentation.

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NameUsed nitrate salts - for solar power application (thermal storage system construction - solar thermal parabolic trough - 50 MW)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryBuilding Materials
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2010
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_used_nitrate_salts_for_solar_power_application_thermal_storage_system_construction_solar_thermal_parabolic_trough_50mw
UUID
38921e14-c64b-4d25-a2a2-ce6742803cf1
Code Snippet
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