Emission Factor

Spray-drying of milk (milk spray-drying)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is milk spray-drying. The Reference Product is spray-drying of milk. Spray-drying of milk is a service. The functional unit is 1 kg water evaporated. This module should be used when evaluating evaporation of water from evaporated milk to produce milk powder. Basic solid contents are 50% for evaporated milk at input and 96.5% for milk powder at output. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/11065/documentation

PropertyValue
NameSpray-drying of milk (milk spray-drying)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryArable Farming
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2004
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.1
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
arable_farming-type_spray_drying_of_milk_milk_spray_drying
UUID
db26f2e6-15a5-4a8a-9ae7-bddd443b9a63
Code Snippet
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