Emission Factor

Sugar - from sugarcane (sugarcane processing - traditional annexed plant)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is sugarcane processing, traditional annexed plant. The reference product is sugar, from sugarcane. The product sugar, from sugarcane is a processed agricultural product. The industrial process diverts 50% of sugarcane juice for raw sugar production and the other 50%, along with molasses (a by-product of sugar crystallization process), is diverted to ethanol production process. 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/20369/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSugar - from sugarcane (sugarcane processing - traditional annexed plant)
SectorEnergy
CategoryFuel
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
fuel-type_sugar_from_sugarcane_sugarcane_processing_traditional_annexed_plant-fuel_use_na
UUID
a123e4cd-825a-499c-9c70-5a71f7a197f5
Code Snippet
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