Emission Factor

Mine infrastructure - open cast - hard coal (mine construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is mine construction, open cast, hard coal. The reference product is mine infrastructure, open cast, hard coal. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a mine infrastructure, open cast, hard coal. The infrastructure is assumed to have a lifetime of 40-50 years for the mine and a lifetime of 30 years for the machinery, while its lifetime capacity is 30,000,000,000 kg. The process includes machinery and equipment, electricity consumption and land use. 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/161/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameMine infrastructure - open cast - hard coal (mine construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1980
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_mine_infrastructure_open_cast_hard_coal_mine_construction_open_cast_hard_coal
UUID
9725480a-5c3b-4f87-ad00-4b853d1c21ce
Code Snippet
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