Pig iron (pig iron production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'pig iron' is a metal. Pig iron contains about 90-95% of elemental iron together with several other elements mainly carbon silicon phosphorus manganese and sulfur – in varying proportions depending on the compositions of the raw materials and the mode of an operating blast furnace. It is a transition metal. It is an intermediate product generated by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: in an electric arc furnace for steelmaking in foundries for producing ductile iron castings in foundry pig iron in grey iron castings. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.