Emission Factor

Gravel/sand quarry infrastructure (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for gravel/sand quarry infrastructure. The reference product is gravel/sand quarry infrastructure. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a gravel and sand mine infrastructure. It is based on an operating plant with an yearly excavated amount of about 400,000 to 500,000 tons and its life time is assumed to be 50 years. The process includes constructed buildings and machineries for a gravel and sand mine, but it excludes land-use of the mining activities (quarrying). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7698/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameGravel/sand quarry infrastructure (market for)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/number
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_gravel_sand_quarry_infrastructure_market_for_gravel_sand_quarry_infrastructure
UUID
876307b7-f82a-42d6-abad-aa47810bc86f
Code Snippet
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