Sand-lime brick (production)

The activity generating the emissions is sand-lime brick production. The Reference Product is sand-lime brick. The product "sand-lime brick" represents 1 kg of sand-lime brick produced from natural silica sand, milled quicklime, additives and water. Its production includes raw material provision, raw material mixing, forming by pressing, hardening by autoclave, packing, and storage. Sand-lime lightweight bricks are insulating bricks with a low apparent density (700 to 900 kg/m3). The most important use of sand-lime bricks in the building sector are: Masonry (supporting walls, parting wall, casing), fair-faced brickwork and Facing/Casing. 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/8391/documentation