Salt (production from seawater - evaporation pond)

The activity generating the emissions is salt production from seawater, evaporation pond. The reference product is salt. Salt is a chemical compound that contains a considerable amount of sodium chloride (CAS No: 7647-14-5). Salt is present in seawater in a concentration of circa 35 kg per m3 of seawater. Salt is produced through evaporation of seawater but is also present in nature in mineral form where it can be mechanically extracted/mined. Salt finds numerous and various application in many sectors such as industrial, chemical, food, agriculture and others. It can be also used to further produce table salt and other products. 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/21444/documentation.