Used vegetable cooking oil - purified (treatment of used vegetable cooking oil - purification)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of used vegetable cooking oil, purification. The Reference Product is used vegetable cooking oil, purified. Used vegetable cooking oil, purified is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in purification of used vegetable cooking oil. used vegetable cooking oil, purified contain the following fractions: 100% vegetable oil. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),used vegetable cooking oil, purified has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and Carbon present is of both fossil (0.3% on a dry matter basis), and non-fossil origin (74.7% on a dry matter basis). It has a lower heating value of 38.4 MJ/kg . This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, this by-product is used in the following processes: treatment of waste cooking oil, purified, esterification. This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix. Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity, users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/10603/documentation