Non-ferrous metal smelter (production)

The activity generating the emissions is non-ferrous metal smelter production. The Reference Product is non-ferrous metal smelter. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a non-ferrous metal smelter. The infrastructrure represents aluminium and iron production processes with an input of 6,750,000 tons ore concentrate and an output of 2,650,000 tons metal per year. It has a lifetime of 50 years. The process includes facilities for roasting, electrolysis and for the blast furnace and converter processes. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/6868/documentation