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Base oil (base oil production - petroleum refinery operation)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. 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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameBase oil (base oil production - petroleum refinery operation)
SectorEnergy
CategoryFuel
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.8
Region
Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type
Weight
Year
2014
Year Released
2021
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
Refer to source
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR4, AR5
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 11Version log
  • Replaced by: 6a4b502d-f5e1-4f9e-875d-0f9ee0fd97c4

API Reference

Activity ID
fuel-type_base_oil_base_oil_production_petroleum_refinery_operation-fuel_use_na
UUID
4b0d2e18-7491-402e-a200-019317e3a7ba_06eb6d76-0ac1-5ba6-aa9b-6b0228e0dd96
Code Snippet
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