Location: GLO - Global
This dataset represents 1 kg of palm date fruit conditioned and dried in Tunisia. All the exchanges are calculated per kg of palm date and are based on field data from the main industrial palm date exporter in Tunisia. The inventory includes the following activities: sorting, washing, fumigating, cooling, heating, drying and glucosing. The packaging has not been taking into account.Regarding waste management, palm date kernel are recovered as animal feed. The annual productivity of the plant is 13000 tons of palm dates Deglet Noor (97% of the plam dates are conventionals). The cultivar of the dates studies is Deglet Noor. Tunisia is the world's largest exporter of Deglet Noor.
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.