Emission Factor

Wood wool (production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is wood wool production. The reference product is wood wool. The product wood wool represents wood shavings which are 0.03 to 0.5 mm thick and usually 2 mm wide. Wood wool has a water content (water in wet mass [kg] / dry mass [kg]) of 0.2. Wood wool is produced mainly from spruce by machines similar to planing machines. The input wood has to be dry (u<20-30%) and its length usually is around 50 cm. Wood wool is mainly used as packing material and as raw material for wood wool boards. 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/5868/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameWood wool (production)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryTimber and Forestry Products
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2002
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
timber_forestry-type_wood_wool_wood_wool_production
UUID
cac81f91-f1d1-4bf7-94c0-983c879da20a
Code Snippet
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