Emission Factor

Single-Si wafer - photovoltaic (single-Si wafer production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, photovoltaic. The reference product is single-Si wafer, photovoltaic. This product represents 1 m2 of single-Si wafer used to produce photovoltaic cells. Wafers are round disks cut from pure silicon ingots. Single-Si, or monocrystalline silicon consists of one single continuous crystal. Single-Si cells are usually more efficient than multi-Si photovoltaic cells. 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/291/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSingle-Si wafer - photovoltaic (single-Si wafer production)
SectorEquipment
CategoryElectronics
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1992
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m2
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
electronics-type_single_si_wafer_photovoltaic_single_si_wafer_production_photovoltaic
UUID
8312f432-5bc2-419b-b1b9-1e3de34ef657
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