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Base oil (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for base oil. The reference product is base oil. Base oil is a basis component for different petroleum products, mainly lubricants due to its technical features (e.g. viscosity index). Often, additional additives are added like PAO (synthetic lubricants).  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/22089/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameBase oil (market for)
SectorEnergy
CategoryFuel
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Global (GLOBAL)
Unit Type
Weight
Year
2014
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
fuel-type_base_oil_market_for_base_oil-fuel_use_na
UUID
3f945311-5ecf-43dc-9fbd-601f0a2b6057
Code Snippet
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