Emission Factor

Base oil (production - petroleum refinery operation)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is base oil production, petroleum refinery operation. 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 ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/20509/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameBase oil (production - petroleum refinery operation)
SectorEnergy
CategoryFuel
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
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_base_oil_production_petroleum_refinery_operation-fuel_use_na
UUID
5c167420-00ee-4f36-956f-c18545c04bb4
Code Snippet
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