Emission Factor

Multi-Si wafer (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for multi-Si wafer. The reference product is multi-Si wafer. This product represents 1 m2 of multi-Si wafer used to produce photovoltaic cells. Wafers are round disks cut from pure silicon ingots. Multi-Si, or polycrystalline silicon consists of many small silicon crystals compared to single-Si that consist of one single continuous crystal. Multi-Si cells are usually less efficient than single-Si photovoltaic cells The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/10047/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameMulti-Si wafer (market for)
SectorEquipment
CategoryElectronics
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m2
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
electronics-type_multi_si_wafer_market_for_multi_si_wafer
UUID
d3ce0405-158f-4a7a-be93-e4a475e8bcb7
Code Snippet
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