Emission Factor

Spent activated carbon with mercury (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for spent activated carbon with mercury. The Reference Product is spent activated carbon with mercury. Spent activated carbon with mercury is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in municipal incenration with fly ash extraction. spent activated carbon with mercury contain the following fractions: spent activated carbon which contain 0.1 to 50 w% mercury. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),spent activated carbon with mercury has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (60% on a dry matter basis). It has a lower heating value of 18.18 MJ/kg . This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this by-product include: deposition (underground deposit). Based on the aforementioned treatments, this by-product receives, it is a hazardous waste. 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 this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity, users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling. The Reference Product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/779/documentation

PropertyValue
NameSpent activated carbon with mercury (market for)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Product
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.5, 3.12
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste-type_spent_activated_carbon_with_mercury_market_for_spent_activated_carbon_with_mercury-disposal_method_na
UUID
8dff512d-e94a-4d10-9127-dc80c347677f
Code Snippet
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