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The activity generating the emissions is heavy fuel oil, burned in refinery furnace. The reference product is heavy fuel oil, burned in refinery furnace. Heavy fuel oil, burned in refinery furnace describes the use of a fossil fuel. It is used as a liquid fuel and is sourced from petroleum refineries. This exchange provides the service of burning 1 MJ of heavy fuel oil in a refinery furnace. The services includes (air) emissions. 1 MJ equals 0.0243 kg of heavy fuel oil (LHV of heavy fuel oil is ca 41.2 MJ/kg). 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/6898/documentation.
Property | Value |
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Name | Heavy fuel oil - burned in refinery furnace |
Sector | Energy |
Category | Fuel |
Source | ecoinvent |
Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
Region | |
Unit Type | |
Year | 1980 |
Year Released | 2024 |
Emission Factor | |
LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
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