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The activity generating the emissions is hard coal mine operation and hard coal preparation. The reference product is hard coal. Hard coal is a fossil fuel with a calorific value of 27.91 MJ/kg. It is used as a solid fuel and is sourced from coal mines after crushing, screening and washing the coal. Its main applications are in the following sectors: domestic fuel (mainly for hand-fired stoves), as filter media and as an ingredient in charcoal briquettes. 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/7999/documentation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Hard coal (mine operation and preparation) |
| Sector | Materials and Manufacturing |
| Category | Mining |
| Source | ecoinvent |
| Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
| Region | |
Unit Type | |
| Year | 1990 |
| Year Released | 2024 |
| Emission Factor | |
LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
| Data Versioning |
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Activity ID
mining-type_hard_coal_hard_coal_mine_operation_and_hard_coal_preparation
UUID
ab907c4e-411f-4603-804b-dcd41754786c
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