Emission Factor

Wastewater treatment facility - capacity 1E9l/year (wastewater treatment facility construction - lagoon - capacity 1.0E9l/year)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is wastewater treatment facility construction, lagoon, capacity 1.0E9l/year. The Reference Product is wastewater treatment facility, capacity 1E9l/year. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of wastewater treatment facility with a capacity of 1E9l/year The infrastructure can be a medium size (class 2) wastewaster facultative aereted lagoons treatment facility with a lifetime of 40 years, or it can be a municipal wastewater treatment plant capacity class 4 with an lifetime of 30 years. The process includes building materials, their decommission and land use. 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/11935/documentation

PropertyValue
NameWastewater treatment facility - capacity 1E9l/year (wastewater treatment facility construction - lagoon - capacity 1.0E9l/year)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_wastewater_treatment_facility_capacity_1e9l_per_year_wastewater_treatment_facility_construction_lagoon_capacity_1.0e9l_per_year
UUID
aa24dbf4-32a8-4b8d-9dc2-8bc86df4c62e
Code Snippet
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