foam glass production, without cullet, UPR, ecoinvent 3.6, Undefined

Categories:
ISIC4 categories:
C:Manufacturing/23:Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products/239:Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products n.e.c./2399:Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products n.e.c.
Location:
GLO - Global
Reference year: 2005 - 2005
Description

Location: GLO - Global
Refers to foam glass of a density of 110 kg/m3 and a thermal conductivity of 0.040 W/mK.
This dataset is based on the dataset for "foam glass production", adjusting the cullet input to zero, with consequences for the input of raw materials (feldspar, lime and soda), the electricity input (for melting) and the CO2 emissions (resulting from decarbonisation of the raw materials), based on data from flatt glass production and "EU commission 2012: Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Manufacture of Glass)"
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.

Technology

All data refer to the year 2005. Today foam glass is made of 68% recycled glass and only recycled glass is used instead of silica sand. Recycled glass is to some extent directly injected to the cellulating furnace without melting, resulting in less energy use. The energy for the melting process is electricity. Natural gas is used for the cellulating process. All emissions from processing raw materials and heating are taken into account.

Process type
Unit
Supported nomenclature
ecoinvent 3.6
LCI modeling approach
Before modeling
Multifunctional modeling
NONE
Format
ECOSPOLD2
Aggregation type
NOT_APPLICABLE
Data provider
ecoinvent
Review status
External
Cost
For sale
License

ecoinvent EULA