Aluminium oxide - metallurgical (aluminium oxide production)

The activity generating the emissions is aluminium oxide production. The Reference Product is aluminium oxide, metallurgical. Aluminium oxide, metallurgical is a metal. It is an inorganic chemical compound. Aluminium is a post-transition metal. It is produced from the calcination of aluminum hydroxide. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: production of aluminium metal, it can be used for industrial ceramics, widely used in the medical industry, military and protective equipment manufacturing, electrical and electronics industry, jewelery manufactruring, other industrial applications like filler in plastics, bricks, other heavy clayware, abrasive for sandpaper, production of piping components such as elbows, tees, straight pipes, hydro cyclones, reducers, nozzles, and valves, various machining tools, cutting tools, thermocouple sheaths, wear-resistant pump impellers, and baffle plates. 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/20531/documentation