intral production, UPR, ecoinvent 3.6, Allocation, cut-off

Categories:
ISIC4 categories:
B:Mining and quarrying/08:Other mining and quarrying/089:Mining and quarrying n.e.c./0891:Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals
Location:
RER - Europe
Reference year: 2000 - 2019
Description

Reference product: intral [kg]
Location: RER - Europe
This dataset represents the production of 1 kg of intral (pyrite) from pyrite in the gorund.
Land-use is an approximation based on iron ore extraction. Material and energy inputs, industrial machine, and particulate emissions are an approximation based on iron mining and limestone crushing and milling.

[The full documentation of this dataset was originally provided in the corresponding ecoinvent report from the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, which is accessible for free to guests and users of ecoinvent version 2 (https://www.ecoinvent.org/login-databases.html). The dataset may subsequently have been subjected to central changes to the database, as described in the respective change report for each new release.]
[This dataset has been generated using the system model "Allocation, cut-off by classification". A system model describes how activity datasets are linked to form product systems. The allocation cut-off system model subdivides multi-product activities by allocation, based on a physical properties, economic, mass or other properties. By-products of waste treatment processes are cut-off, as are all by-products classified as recyclable. Markets in this model include all activities in proportion to their current production volume.
Version 3 of the ecoinvent database offers three system models to choose from. For more information, please visit: https://www.ecoinvent.org/database/system-models-in-ecoinvent-3/system-…)]

Technology

As a first approximation, the technology is based on iron mining, limestone crushing and limestone milling technologies. The overall yield is assumed to be 90%.

Process type
Unit
Supported nomenclature
ecoinvent 3.6
LCI modeling approach
Attributional
Multifunctional modeling
ECONOMIC
Format
ECOSPOLD2
Aggregation type
NOT_APPLICABLE
Data provider
ecoinvent
Review status
External
Cost
For sale
License

ecoinvent EULA