Emission Factor
Heavy fuel oil (production - petroleum refinery operation)
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The activity generating the emissions is heavy fuel oil production, petroleum refinery operation. The reference product is heavy fuel oil. Heavy fuel oil is a fossil fuel with a calorific value of 41.2 MJ/kg. It is used as a tar-like fuel and is sourced from petroleum refineries. Its main application is in the following sector: shipping. 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/21326/documentation.
Property | Value |
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Name | Heavy fuel oil (production - petroleum refinery operation) |
Sector | Energy |
Category | Fuel |
Source | ecoinvent |
Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
Region | |
Unit Type | |
Year | 2014 |
Year Released | 2024 |
Emission Factor |
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LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
Data Versioning |
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API Reference
Activity ID
fuel-type_heavy_fuel_oil_heavy_fuel_oil_production_petroleum_refinery_operation-fuel_use_na
UUID
8e39d925-6dee-40d4-ac10-c47bbb04b2c0
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