Emission Factor

Potassium chloride - industrial grade (potassium chloride production - from salar brine)

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The activity generating the emissions is potassium chloride production, from salar brine. The reference product is potassium chloride, industrial grade. Potassium chloride, industrial grade is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 007447-40-7. It is called potassium;chloride under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: ClK. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and it has no odor. Other chemical components are sodium (typical 0.9), sulfate (2.0) magnesium (<0.1), calcium (<0.8), insolubles (<0.1) and moisture (0.3). Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. On a consumer level, is used in the following products: laboratory chemicals There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on industrial sites. 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/20457/documentation.

PropertyValue
NamePotassium chloride - industrial grade (potassium chloride production - from salar brine)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryChemical Products
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2015
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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Activity ID
chemicals-type_potassium_chloride_industrial_grade_potassium_chloride_production_from_salar_brine
UUID
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