Wastewater from particle board production (treatment of - wastewater treatment)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of wastewater from particle board production, wastewater treatment. The Reference Product is wastewater from particle board production. Wastewater from particle board production is a by-product (wastewater) produced from industrial sources. It is generated from particle board and various timber production activities. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),wastewater from particle board production has the following physicochemical characteristics: C: 0 kg/m3 , N: 0 kg/m3 , P: 0 kg/m3. Further elements might be contained. The user is advised to check the specific composition of the WW. This kind of by-product (wastewater) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling wastewater outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this wastewater include: wastewater treatment plant. This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix. Collection and transportation of wastewater is accounted in the respective market activity with the use of sewer infrastructure; users are encouraged to inspect and modify the average infrastructure length of the sewer for specific modelling cases. Transportation of wastewater through a sewer grid results in losses until the wastewater enters the wastewater treatment plant. Direct emissions due to those losses are considered in the market activity. Losses are regional specific and thus users are encouraged to inspect the regional modelling assumptions. The Reference Product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/25513/documentation