Pig iron (heavy mineral sand quarry operation and titania slag production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'pig iron' is a metal. Pig iron contains about 90-95% of elemental iron together with several other elements mainly carbon silicon phosphorus manganese and sulfur – in varying proportions depending on the compositions of the raw materials and the mode of an operating blast furnace. It is a transition metal. It is an intermediate product generated by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: in an electric arc furnace for steelmaking in foundries for producing ductile iron castings in foundry pig iron in grey iron castings. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.