Palladium (platinum group metal - extraction and refinery operations)

The activity generating the emissions is platinum group metal, extraction and refinery operations. The Reference Product is palladium. Palladium is a metal. It is rare, silvery-white that resembles platinum and it is a transition metal. It is a direct product of the joint production of platinum, nickel, copper, and rhodium and a by-product of platinum group metal, extraction and refinery operations. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: catalytic converters for cars, in jewellery and some dental fillings and crowns, in the electronics industry in ceramic capacitors, found in laptop computers and mobile phones, catalyst for hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/21872/documentation