Emission Factor

Steel - low-alloyed (steel production - converter)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is steel production, converter, low-alloyed. The reference product is steel, low-alloyed. Steel, low-alloyed is a metal. It contains a maximum share of 5% of alloying elements. It is a direct product of a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) or of the electric arc furnace (EAF). It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: widely used for the production of pipes, automotive and aerospace bodies, railway lines and offshore and onshore structural engineering plates. 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/21769/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSteel - low-alloyed (steel production - converter)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2010
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.1
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_steel_low_alloyed_steel_production_converter_low_alloyed
UUID
3e0dfde3-8f65-4d94-9671-657fe35d51e4
Code Snippet
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