Emission Factor

Palm oil - crude (palm oil mill operation)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is palm oil mill operation. The reference product is palm oil, crude. The product palm oil, crude is produced by means of wet milling in a oil mill producing palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm kernel meal. The crude oil is further refined to become edible or used as it is to produce biodiesel.The palm fruit has a single seed, the palm kernel, protected by a wooden endocarp or shell and surrounded by a fleshy mesocarp or pulp. This fruit produces two types of oil: one extracted from the pulp (palm oil) and the other from the kernel (palm kernel oil). 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/8023/documentation.

PropertyValue
NamePalm oil - crude (palm oil mill operation)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryArable Farming
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1995
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
arable_farming-type_palm_oil_crude_palm_oil_mill_operation
UUID
b99bf57f-9eeb-4b4e-a7c2-864f20508d65
Code Snippet
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