Contents

The functional unit represent 1 kg of solid carbon black. Large uncertainty of the process data due to weak data on the production process and estimation of data on process emissions.

dataset

number 261
timestamp 2010-09-02T11:40:57
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referenceFunction

unit kg
amount 1
includedProcesses Raw materials and chemicals used for production, transport of materials to manufacturing plant, estimated emissions to air and water from production (incomplete), estimation of energy demand and infrastructure of the plant (approximation). Solid wastes omitted.
infrastructureIncluded true
datasetRelatesToProduct true

geography

location GLO
text Data used has no specific geographical origin (stoechiometry). Average europenan processes for raw materials, transport requirements and electricity mix used.

technology

Production in a oil-furnace process - using natural gas as further energy input. The overall process yield is of 50%. Inventory bases on literature information about two different types of carbon black. Estimation of emission amount while composition is based on literature.

timePeriod

startYear 2000
endYear 2000

dataSetInformation

timestamp 2006-05-26T17:58:26
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