Emission Factor

Chromium (production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is chromium production. The reference product is chromium. Chromium is a metal. It is steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle while it is a transition metal. It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: used for alloying non-ferrous engineering materials, to produce other Chromium metal like non-ferrous alloys that exclude iron and certain superalloys, used in the aerospace industry in the form of superalloys, also used in industries for gas turbine, and petrochemical. 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/2800/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameChromium (production)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1994
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_chromium_chromium_production
UUID
85ab8c92-4502-453c-abfb-02df75a654a9
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