Emission Factor

Ferronickel (production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is ferronickel production. The reference product is ferronickel. Ferronickel is a metal. Ferronickel is an alloy of iron with 20-50% nickel content as alloying element, which is a transition metal. It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation and a by-product from cobalt production. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: mainly for manufacturing of stainless steels, as starting material in the preparation of chemicals and rure metals, reducing agent, in other nonferrous alloys and amorphous metals. 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/3161/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameFerronickel (production)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1994
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_ferronickel_ferronickel_production
UUID
5132d7ba-4074-4d19-af06-f3101e96c063
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