Emission Factor

Precious metal refinery (construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is precious metal refinery construction. The reference product is precious metal refinery. 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 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/6605/documentation.

PropertyValue
NamePrecious metal refinery (construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2000
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/number
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_precious_metal_refinery_precious_metal_refinery_construction
UUID
3915960b-407b-4553-99a2-05fac4bc112c
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